Vannie

Where Vannie comes from

Diminutive + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Vannie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #692
    8 babies named Vannie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1964
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, short for Vanessa.
Namesakes

No widely known Vannie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.