Fairy
Fairy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 625th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191780 births
- Best rank
- #625in 1905
- Since 1882
- 2,392people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,392 girls have been named Fairy in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 80 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 80 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Fairy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 61 | |
| 1890s | 160 | |
| 1900s | 234 | |
| 1910s | 488 | |
| 1920s | 597 | |
| 1930s | 391 | |
| 1940s | 220 | |
| 1950s | 140 | |
| 1960s | 50 | |
| 2010s | 41 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Fairy was the 772nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Fairy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eulapeak 1919
- Henrettapeak 1916
- Mablepeak 1922
- Elviepeak 1917
- Elmapeak 1918
- Nevapeak 1920
- Pansypeak 1916
- Lethapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.