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Faelyn

Girl · FAY-lin · Modern

Faelyn is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “fairy + lake”. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).

What does Faelyn mean?

Modern: spelling of Faelynn; blend of Fae and Lynn

“fairy + lake”

Say it
FAY-lin

Meaning borrowed from Faelynn.

Is Faelyn a girl's or a boy's name?

Faelyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Faelyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,837among girls
Babies in 2025
16about 1 in 100,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 96% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Faelyn, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.

Half of all the girls named Faelyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 75 girls in the US were given Faelyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,054, up from #6,837 for this spelling alone.

2006Busiest: 19 in 20162025
Faelyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202516#6,837
202417#6,639
202316#6,917
202213#8,027
202113#8,019
20206#13,448
20198#11,350
201811#9,146
201719#6,283
201619#6,398
201516#7,263
201411#9,512
20135#16,542
201213#8,628
20116#14,816
20107#13,442
20096#15,236
200810#10,802
20070–
20067#13,601

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Names like Faelyn

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