Fairy-Tale Names
Fairy tales preserve both ordinary names and descriptive story names. This collection identifies a tale or retelling for each choice, keeping familiar adaptations separate from claims about an original medieval or folk form.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The hero of Jack and the Beanstalk and other English tales. | 8,748#15 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
Lewis Carroll's literary fairy-tale heroine. | 3,547#65 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Briar Rose and Rose Red supply fairy-tale connections. | 2,386#114 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
The familiar Cinderella-related name used in later retellings. | 5,831#29 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
The heroine of the literary fairy story Peter Pan. | 165#1,347 | Down 159 rank positions in five years | 1967 | ||
The princess in Disney's Aladdin. | 1,481#206 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
The hero's name in many Russian wonder tales. | 2,240#163 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
The Robin Hood romance tradition supplies a storybook connection. | 217#1,103 | Up 244 rank positions in five years | 1924 | ||
The princess's name in Disney's Sleeping Beauty. | 7,065#15 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The Italian white-name form recalls Snow White in translation. | 594#500 | Down 80 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Ali Baba supplies the connection to the Arabian Nights story tradition. | 1,116#306 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The heroine of Disney's The Princess and the Frog. | 491#598 | Up 95 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
The heroine's name in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. | 247#1,013 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
A familiar boy's name in several Grimm tales. | 146#1,325 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Briar Rose, the familiar Sleeping Beauty name. | 778#400 | Up 167 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The girl in Hansel and Gretel. | 48#3,269 | Up 250 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Snow White supplies the fairy-tale connection. | 36#4,055 | Down 783 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
The heroine of the familiar cinder-girl tale. | —Unranked | — | 1922 | ||
The heroine's descriptive name in Beauty and the Beast. | 19#6,155 | Down 971 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
An English translation spelling of Gretel. | 5#15,711 | Down 8,684 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
The heroine of several Russian fairy tales. | 17#6,811 | Up 3,385 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
The hero of the familiar wonder-lamp tale. | 8#8,937 | Down 1,426 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
The long-haired heroine of the Grimm tale. | —Unranked | — | 1959 | ||
The word recalls Tinker Bell, rather than naming a traditional folk heroine. | —Unranked | — | 1955 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.