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Fawn

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Fawn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 763rd, in 1977.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
220.00% of girls
Peak year
1981206 births
Best rank
#763in 1977
Since 1900
5,615people given the name
Babies named Fawn, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

5,615 girls have been named Fawn in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1981, with 206 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 1980s alone account for 26%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Fawn
1900s6
1910s92
1920s127
1930s84
1940s107
1950s548
1960s1,095
1970s1,393
1980s1,433
1990s331
2000s139
2010s154
2020s106

In 1981, its biggest year

Fawn was the 788th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1981 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1981.

Names that rose and fell with Fawn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.