Given name & surname
Fani
“woman from France; one who is free”
Fani is a variant of Frances. In Latin use, Frances carries the interpretation “woman from France; one who is free.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fani is a variant of Frances. In Latin use, Frances carries the interpretation “woman from France; one who is free.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Spanish usage, Fani is a diminutive of Estefanía.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fani through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 64
- 0 boys · 64 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 587 as a first name in 2020; 261 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fani’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Fani is a diminutive of Estefanía. Fani has a related form in Frances. In Greek usage, Fani is a transliteration of Φάνη.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fani
- Fani ChalkiaGreek hurdlerborn 1979
- Fani PsathaOlympic wrestlerborn 1976
- Fani KołarovaBulgarian actressborn 1975
- Fani Palli-PetraliaGreek politicianborn 1943
- Fani Popova-MutafovaBulgarian writer (1902-1977)
- Fani TzeliGreek taekwondo practitionerborn 2001
- Fani WillisAmerican attorney and District Attorney of Fulton County (born 1971)
- Fani StipkovićCroatian television reporter, host and journalistborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.