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Pixie

#14,506 in 2025Girls' name

English word name: pixie

Pixie has been given to 617 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #14,506 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1955, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Pixie, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pixie: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: pixie

English

What Pixie means

Pixie takes the English word pixie into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Pixie is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 617 girls were recorded with the name Pixie between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1955; its best national rank was #1,722 in 1955.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,302 in 2020 to #14,506 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,828 in 2015 to #14,506 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pixie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,506
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pixie 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pixie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pixies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pixie was born before 1973 — so the typical Pixie is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
586
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Pixie 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
−1,385
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,204
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,678
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.2%
Peak was 1955 (37)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,722
1955

Spellings of Pixie

Pixie is not the most common spelling — Dixie is, with 42.5% against Pixie's 0.59%.

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 Pixie is used

Across 1910–2025, Pixie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 565,874 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Pixie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pixie around the world

Where Pixie 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
    2004–2025
    #585
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    2009–2011
    #7,077
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    2004–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Pixie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,506
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,204
Best rank ever
#1,722
1955
Peak year
1955
37 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
617
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Pixie

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

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Sibling names for Pixie

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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