Fanny

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Female Name

Usage

Icelandic
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

1) English pet form of Frances ^{[1] [2]}

2) Pet form of Stefanie ^[1]

3) Swedish, Norwegian and Danish spelling of Fanný ^[3]

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

2 March

Sweden

9 February

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Fanny
Accusative:	Fanny
Dative:	Fanny
Genitive:	Fannyjar

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Female ♀	Male ♂	Commonness
Sweden[4] #	7499	0
Denmark[5] #	345	0
Norway[6] #	264	0
Faroe Islands[7] #	19	0
Finland[8] &	10007	3
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[4][5][6][8]:

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [6] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Own guess. No references found for this theory, yet.
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Hagstova Føroya, Statistics Faroe Islands, http://www.hagstova.fo/
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi