Fauna
Fauna was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,049 among girls’ names; 183 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fauna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fauna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Fauna is “a female given name from Latin.”
Feminine form of Faunus. Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₂w-, whence Ancient Greek θαῦνον (thaûnon, “beast”), Illyrian-related Daunus. Some refer it to faveō.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fauna?
#9,049 among girls’ names, 2025
Fauna rose from #15,111 in 2015 to #9,049 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 6.8 per million.
15 babies in 1978, the peak
Fauna peaked in 1978, when 15 girls were given it, #4,508 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,049 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,596 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,188 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,674 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,629 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,571 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,974 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,366 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,111 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,389 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #13,669 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,262 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,829 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,791 | 4.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,885 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,505 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,968 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,439 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,522 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,508 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,782 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,182 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,263 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fauna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fauna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fauna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fauna, and how old are they?
An estimated 178 Americans named Fauna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 6 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 254 people named Fauna (254 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,161 babies since 1880, Fauna is the second most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 29 babies (38%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Fauna and names like it
- Compare Fauna and FannyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sFauna peaked in 1978.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Fauna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Fauna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fauna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.