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Fanny is completely unusable in the US due to its slang meaning of "buttocks". Back in the early 1970s, I had a friend who had just moved to the US from Uruguay whose name was Fanny. Within a few years, she found it necessary to start going by her middle name, Renee.

Fanny would be considered old-fashioned but not out of the question. People are well aware that it's been a common name in the past, and "fanny" as a euphemism has all but dropped out of usage these days.

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British people are also astonishingly good at compartmentalising. They can cope with words having two very different meanings!