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Fairy

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Fairy has been given to 2,392 babies in the U.S. since 1882. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Fairy, 2024

1 in 669,000

Fairy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fairy: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fairy means

Fairy is a given name.

The naming story behind Fairy

Wikidata records Fairy as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q134277626, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,392 girls were recorded with the name Fairy between 1882 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1917; its best national rank was #625 in 1905.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Fairy?

Fairy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fairy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fairy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fairys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fairy was born before 1923 — so the typical Fairy is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
241
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Choose a decade

1920s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (597).

Is Fairy rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (80)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#625
1905

Spellings of Fairy

Fairy is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 90.3% against Fairy's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fairy is used

Across 1910–2025, Fairy was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 148,145 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 33,333
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fairy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fairy around the world

Where Fairy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2010–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fairy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#625
1905
Peak year
1917
80 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,392
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fairy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

FaigyFaigaFaizaKeiryFaizahFaitheTahiryAtziryKairyFaigeFainaFaithlynFaithYatziryJatziryFaithlynnTziryFailaDevoiryFaisaFaithannFaithfulFairieAthziry

Names with a curve like Fairy

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fairy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VerlieOzellaDelphaOssieAlvertaBeaulahEdythVerdieMyrleArvillaEunaMammie

Sibling names for Fairy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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