Nannie
Nannie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 86th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920655 births
- Best rank
- #86in 1882
- Since 1880
- 25,560people given the name
The story in the numbers
25,560 girls have been named Nannie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 655 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 655 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1916, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Nannie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,165 | |
| 1890s | 3,599 | |
| 1900s | 3,391 | |
| 1910s | 4,997 | |
| 1920s | 5,243 | |
| 1930s | 2,740 | |
| 1940s | 1,438 | |
| 1950s | 640 | |
| 1960s | 232 | |
| 1970s | 93 | |
| 1980s | 16 | |
| 1990s | 6 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Nannie was the 258th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Nannie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mittiepeak 1920
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Idapeak 1918
- Salliepeak 1916
- Lulapeak 1921
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Effiepeak 1919
- Minniepeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.