Girl name#1,966 of girl names
Fawn
Pronounced F AO1 N (ARPABET)
- 1 syllable
- Peaked 1981
- 125 years in use
How popular is Fawn?
Fawn is a girls' name, and first appears in 1900. It has been given to 5,615 children — the 1,966th most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 204 births across the past decade, against a peak of 206 in a single year. That peak was in 1981.
Characteristics
- 1 syllable
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- F AO1 N
- Stress pattern:
- 1
- Syllables:
- 1
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Fawn
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Fawn
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Fawn?
- Fawn ranks 1,966th among girls' names in US records, with 5,615 births since 1900. Over the past decade it accounts for 204.
- Is Fawn a unisex name?
- No. Fawn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Fawn most popular?
- 1981, when 206 children were given the name. It has been in use for 125 years and is still recorded as of 2024.