Fawn

Where Fawn comes from

Fawn hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,723 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1915
    Fawn M. Brodie born
    American historian and biographer
  3. 1959
    Fawn Hall born
    American civil servant
  4. 1977
    Peak, #763
    198 babies named Fawn — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,496.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Fawn M. Brodie · American historian and biographer, 1915–1981
  • Fawn Hall · American civil servant, born 1959
  • Fawn Veerasunthorn · Thai film director, born 1983
  • Fawn Rogers · American artist
  • Fawn Sharp · politician, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.