Fanta
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 24 babies a year in the US.
Fanta by the numbers
Fanta was given to 24 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 66 babies in 1977, making it a 1970s name.
What we can tell you about Fanta
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Fanta. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Faithtrust or belief2,602 in the US (2017)
- Faigabird; a form of Fayge54 in the US (2017)
- Faizavictorious or successful woman37 in England and Wales (2025)
- Faythfaith; a modern spelling of Faith39 in the US (2017)
- Fennaprepared or ready; a form of Fenia26 in England and Wales (2025)
- Fatmaone who abstains; a form of Fatimah19 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Fanta
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