Fairy — #15281 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Fairy

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,392 babies named Fairy between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fairy currently holds the #15281 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 80 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fairy performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 597 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Fairy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 131 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Fairy in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fairy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,392 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.