Fanny (first name)
Fanny is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
English as German name lexicons propose the name Fanny as a short form of Frances , and Franziska be seen. The origin of the name has not been conclusively clarified; A Celtic one would also be conceivable, analogous to Jenny . In addition, the overwhelming majority of women named “Fanny” has always felt that the name “Fanny” is an independent female first name. With Henry Fielding's novel Joseph Andrews of 1742 it became the fashion name throughout Europe and was particularly popular with the Protestant German nobility and Scandinavia, while "Franziska" is more associated with southern Catholics. A correlation with "Franziska" is only absolutely certain in the Bavarian, especially rural, language area. But here too there is the independent “Fanny”, ie “Fanny” as a birth register entry without reference to “Franziska”. The Yiddish “Feigla” (variants: Feigel (e), Fejga) could also be rendered as “Fanny” (Hebrew פאני / פני).
In the Anglo-Saxon-speaking world, the name has been burdened with previously unexplained connotations for a long time and is therefore hardly used anymore: In British English the word "fanny" refers to the female genitals, in American English the buttocks. Perhaps the world-famous pornographic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland (1749, commonly called Fanny Hill , after the title character of the novel) plays a role in these connotations .
Name bearers
First name
- Fanny Ardant (born 1949), French actress
- Fanny von Arnstein (1758–1818), Viennese society lady
- Fanny de Beauharnais (born Marie Anna Françoise Mouchard; 1738–1813), French poet
- Frances “Fanny” Burney (1752–1840), English writer
- Fanny von Bernstorff (1840–1930), German draftsman and children's book author
- Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918–2004), Dutch athlete
- Fanny Brice , actually Fania Borach (1891–1951), American comedian, entertainer, singer, theater and film actress
- Fanny Cerrito (1817–1909), Italian ballet dancer and choreographer
- Fanny Chmelar (* 1985), German ski racer
- Fanny Churberg (1845-1892), Finnish landscape painter
- Fanny Cihlar (* 1980), German field hockey player
- Fanny Durack (1889–1956), Australian swimmer
- Fanny Elßler (1810–1884), Austrian dancer
- Fanny Fischer (* 1986), German canoeist
- Fanny Hensel (1805–1847; née Fanny Zippora Mendelssohn; baptized Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn Bartholdy), composer of German Romanticism
- Fanny Hünerwadel (1826–1854), Swiss composer
- Fanny Janauschek (1828–1904), Austrian actress
- Fanny Jensen (1890–1969), Danish social democratic politician
- Fanny Kaplan (1890–1918), Russian anarchist and social revolutionary
- Fanny Kelly (1845–1904), American pioneer wife and author
- Fanny Krug (* 1970), German singer
- Fanny Lewald (1811-1889), German writer
- Fanny Meyer (painter) (1842–1909), German landscape painter
- Fanny Meyer (puppeteer) (1905–1943), German puppeteer
- Fanny Moran-Olden (1855–1905), German singer
- Fanny Morweiser (1940–2014), German writer
- Fanny Moser (1872–1953), Swiss zoologist and parapsychologist
- Fanny Müller (1941–2016), German writer and satirist
- Fanny Rabel (1922–2008), Polish-Mexican artist
- Fanny Reventlow (1871-1918), b. Fanny Countess zu Reventlow, German writer, painter and translator
- Fanny Rosenfeld (1903–1969), Canadian athlete
- Fanny Schreck (1877–1951), German actress
- Fanny Starhemberg , b. Franziska Countess von Larisch-Mönnich, (1875–1943), Austrian politician
- Fanny Stavjanik (* 1966), German-Austrian actress
- Fanny Tarnow (1779–1862), German writer
- Fanny Valette (* 1986), French actress
- Fanny von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1882–1956), Swedish writer
Fictional character
- Fanny Hill , title character of the erotic letter novel of the same name from 1749 (in the original English Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure )