Fawn

Fawn: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“young deer”
Origin
English
Say it
FAWN · 1 syllable
Used for
Girls

Fawn is an English vocabulary name from the animal term for a young deer. It can also evoke the light yellowish-brown color word.

How popular is Fawn?

20246.6 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Fawn in 202422

Peak year1977

Total US babies since 18805,615

Fawn is rising: use over the last five years is 2.0× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Fawn

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Oliviaolive tree · English
  • Evelyndesired; little bird · English
  • Harperharp player · English
  • Violetviolet flower · English
  • Hazelhazel tree · English
  • Ellieshort form of names ending in -el or -ella · English
  • Lilylily flower · English
  • Scarlettscarlet, bright red · English

Fawn questions

What does the name Fawn mean?

Fawn means "young deer". It comes from English. Fawn is an English vocabulary name from the animal term for a young deer. It can also evoke the light yellowish-brown color word.

Is Fawn a boy or girl name?

Fawn is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Fawn?

22 US babies were named Fawn in 2024. Its peak year was 1977.

How do you pronounce Fawn?

Fawn is usually pronounced FAWN.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.