Nanette vs Nannie
American parents have registered 25,580 Nannies since 1880, against 16,894 Nanettes. But in 2025 it was Nanette that was commoner, 6 babies to fewer than five.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Nanette Nannie
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 143 years in which either name was published, Nanette for 77 years and Nannie for 66 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Nanette | Nannie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 16,894 | 25,580 |
| Most in one year | 772 | 655 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 13,000 | 2,400 |
| Median age today | 64 | 80 |
| Peak year | 1957 | 1920 |
| Best rank | 331st girls | 258th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 13,208th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1892 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 16,894 / 0 | 25,560 / 20 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Nannies alive today are over 80; half the Nanettes are over 64. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Nanette Utah (3.1×), Hawaii (2.2×), Michigan (1.9×)
- Nannie Virginia (9.1×), Kentucky (8.6×), North Carolina (6.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nanette and Nannie.