Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
In mythological stories, Fauna is associated with a goddess of nature and fertility.
Fauna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 183
- 0 boys · 183 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #9,051 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,051 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 254 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fauna’s family of names
Fauna has a related form in Fawn. Fauna has a related form in Faun. Fauna has a related form in Fawna.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Fawnvariant
- Faunevariant
- Fawnevariant
- Fawniavariant
- Faunvariant
- Fawnavariant
- Faunnalikely variant
- Fawneavariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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