Meaning not yet researched.
Fawn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #763 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #763 in 1977; #5,983 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fawn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,983 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #763.
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Fawn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #763 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 206 (1981).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Fawn, making it the 5,983rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 305 places from #5,678 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 22 girls named Fawn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #763, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 206, in 1981. For comparison, it was #6,308 in 2015 and #1,803 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fawn in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 6 babies. In all, 5,635 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,433 babies named Fawn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 204 US girls were named Fawn; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dawn (290,680 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fawne and Phawn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fawne (71), Phawn (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Fawn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,983 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,678 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,445 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,082 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,885 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,427 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,817 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,367 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,904 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,253 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,308 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,536 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,279 | — | — |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,685 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,658 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,680 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,891 | — | — |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,070 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,500 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,056 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,632 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,533 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,150 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,178 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,422 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,373 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,006 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,207 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,425 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,902 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,157 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1988 | 125 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1987 | 143 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1986 | 111 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1985 | 132 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1984 | 133 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1983 | 166 | #906 | — | — |
| 1982 | 156 | #951 | — | — |
| 1981 | 206 | #788 | — | — |
| 1980 | 165 | #914 | — | — |
| 1979 | 158 | #935 | — | — |
| 1978 | 150 | #943 | — | — |
| 1977 | 198 | #763 | — | — |
| 1976 | 160 | #853 | — | — |
| 1975 | 153 | #873 | — | — |
| 1974 | 136 | #925 | — | — |
| 1973 | 121 | #985 | — | — |
| 1972 | 99 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1971 | 117 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1970 | 101 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1969 | 75 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1968 | 92 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1967 | 89 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1966 | 131 | #877 | — | — |
| 1965 | 112 | #974 | — | — |
| 1964 | 121 | #958 | — | — |
| 1963 | 121 | #966 | — | — |
| 1962 | 97 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1961 | 132 | #939 | — | — |
| 1960 | 125 | #956 | — | — |
| 1959 | 109 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1958 | 48 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1956 | 74 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1954 | 64 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1953 | 48 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,028 | — | — |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,352 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,860 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,632 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,850 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,996 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,994 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,475 | — | — |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,301 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,803 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).