Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Fairley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fairley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Fairley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Fairley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Fairley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Fairley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Fairley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fairley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 13 0.000004759 13 -100%
1943 12 0.000004251 12 -100%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 -100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 -100%
1946 13 0.000004068 13 -100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%

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  5. Fairie
  6. Fairley (this page)
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  8. Fairy
  9. Fairyn
  10. Faisa
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