Given name & surname
Fair
“a beautiful woman; one who is light-skinned”
Fair is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “a beautiful woman; one who is light-skinned.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a beautiful woman; one who is light-skinned.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1907. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fair through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 46
- 5 boys · 41 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1928. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 130 as a first name in 2020; 17,628 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fair’s family of names
Fair has a related form in Faire. Fair has a related form in Fare. Fair has a related form in Fayr.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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