Fairy
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293
- Peak · girls
- 1883 · 10 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,392since 1882
Fairy over time
Rank among girls' names. Fairy has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 |
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| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 |
| 1955 | #2,635 | 18 |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 |
| 1951 | #2,474 | 17 |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 |
| 1949 | #2,514 | 16 |
| 1948 | #2,491 | 16 |
| 1947 | #1,897 | 26 |
| 1946 | #2,153 | 19 |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 |
| 1944 | #1,867 | 21 |
| 1943 | #1,591 | 28 |
| 1942 | #1,860 | 21 |
| 1941 | #1,610 | 24 |
| 1940 | #1,242 | 35 |
| 1939 | #1,160 | 39 |
| 1938 | #1,316 | 31 |
| 1937 | #1,355 | 29 |
| 1936 | #1,691 | 20 |
| 1935 | #1,119 | 39 |
| 1934 | #1,133 | 39 |
| 1933 | #1,179 | 36 |
| 1932 | #953 | 55 |
| 1931 | #931 | 55 |
| 1930 | #1,059 | 48 |
| 1929 | #968 | 55 |
| 1928 | #1,009 | 55 |
| 1927 | #1,127 | 46 |
| 1926 | #971 | 59 |
| 1925 | #1,037 | 53 |
| 1924 | #951 | 64 |
| 1923 | #976 | 58 |
| 1922 | #861 | 73 |
| 1921 | #928 | 64 |
| 1920 | #865 | 70 |
| 1919 | #1,010 | 51 |
| 1918 | #825 | 75 |
| 1917 | #772 | 80 |
| 1916 | #893 | 57 |
| 1915 | #917 | 52 |
| 1914 | #864 | 46 |
| 1913 | #867 | 37 |
| 1912 | #868 | 33 |
| 1911 | #811 | 28 |
| 1910 | #794 | 29 |
| 1909 | #719 | 31 |
| 1908 | #723 | 29 |
| 1907 | #739 | 26 |
| 1906 | #731 | 25 |
| 1905 | #620 | 32 |
| 1904 | #755 | 22 |
| 1903 | #1,076 | 11 |
| 1902 | #773 | 20 |
| 1901 | #881 | 14 |
| 1900 | #742 | 24 |
| 1899 | #680 | 21 |
| 1898 | #768 | 19 |
| 1897 | #660 | 22 |
| 1896 | #688 | 21 |
| 1895 | #986 | 11 |
| 1894 | #950 | 11 |
| 1893 | #739 | 16 |
| 1892 | #762 | 15 |
| 1891 | #839 | 11 |
| 1890 | #758 | 13 |
| 1889 | #724 | 13 |
| 1888 | #1,136 | 6 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | #657 | 12 |
| 1885 | #793 | 8 |
| 1884 | #851 | 7 |
| 1883 | #615 | 10 |
| 1882 | #908 | 5 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Fairy! It came in at #908, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1887, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Fairy is popular in 1928
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#430 · 1 in 3,705
- Kentucky#436 · 1 in 4,627
- Illinois#542 · 1 in 8,186
Best ever in a state: #284 in Mississippi, 1911.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #430 | 5 | 1 in 3,705 |
| Kentucky | #436 | 6 | 1 in 4,627 |
| Illinois | #542 | 7 | 1 in 8,186 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Fairy
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 412 spots in 1889 (#1,136 → #724)
- Biggest drop: 303 spots in 1903 (#773 → #1,076)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1883 at #615 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1887, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1904–1918
- Highest: 1 in 9,113 girls born in 1905 were named Fairy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 324,038 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #615 in 1883, was only 1 in 11,232 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.0% of all girls named Fairy (597) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 61 | #615 (1883) | #812 |
| 1890s | 160 | #660 (1897) | #783 |
| 1900s | 234 | #620 (1905) | #776 |
| 1910s | 488 | #772 (1917) | #862 |
| 1920s | 597 | #861 (1922) | #969 |
| 1930s | 391 | #931 (1931) | #1,190 |
| 1940s | 220 | #1,242 (1940) | #1,956 |
| 1950s | 140 | #2,474 (1951) | #3,189 |
| 1960s | 50 | #3,920 (1960) | #4,294 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 41 | #9,943 (2017) | #13,776 |
| 2020s | 10 | #15,251 (2021) | #15,272 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Fairy in 1928
Top girls' names in 1928
More about 1928
girls
1,153,318 girls got a published name in 1928; 1 in 20,969 of them was named Fairy, which outranked 81.5% of the 5,440 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #994Ralph56
- #994Santos56
- #994Soledad56
- #1,009Fairy55
- #1,009Blossom55
- #1,009Burnice55
- #1,009Concha55
- #1,015Birtha54
- #1,015Brenda54
- #1,015Clarabelle54
Tied with 5 names at #1,009; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.