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Fawn

#5,982 in 2025Girls' name

English word name: fawn

Fawn has been given to 5,635 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #5,982 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 206 recorded.

Babies named Fawn, 2025

1 in 166,000

Fawn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fawn: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: fawn

English

What Fawn means

Fawn is documented as an English vocabulary word adopted as a personal name. Its immediate reference is the word fawn; the cited entry discusses the word history separately from its use as a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,635 girls were recorded with the name Fawn between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 206 in 1981; its best national rank was #763 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,423 in 2020 to #5,982 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,306 in 2015 to #5,982 in 2025.

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 Fawn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,982
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fawn 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 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fawn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fawns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fawn was born before 1976 — so the typical Fawn is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,219
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Choose a decade

1980s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (1,433).

Is Fawn 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
−307
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+441
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+324
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.7%
Peak was 1981 (206)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#763
1977

Spellings of Fawn

Fawn is not the most common spelling — Ann is, with 44.2% against Fawn's 0.53%.

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 Fawn is used

Across 1910–2025, Fawn was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 47,127 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 20,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 25,000
  3. 3Oregon1 in 25,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 25,000
  6. 6California1 in 33,333
  7. 7Colorado1 in 33,333
  8. 8New York1 in 33,333

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. Fawn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fawn around the world

Where Fawn 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Fawn

People whose public names include Fawn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fawn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,982
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 441
Best rank ever
#763
1977
Peak year
1981
206 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,635
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Fawn

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

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Names with a curve like Fawn

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

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Sibling names for Fawn

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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