Fauna
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Fauna is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “beast”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Fauna mean?
Latin
“beast”
A female given name from Latin.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Fauna a girl's or a boy's name?
Fauna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fauna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,858among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Fauna, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1978, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1967.
Half of all the girls named Fauna in the US since 1880 were born between 1980 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fauna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,560 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,703 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,369 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,802 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,318 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,311 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,459 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,565 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,773 |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,041 |
Names like Fauna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Faiza Zaira Zayla Rahma Farah Raha Fatiha Hafsa Zaya Ayra Huda
More Latin names
Oliver Olivia Leo Roman Aurora Emily Florence Mabel Luna Nora Rosie Emilia Max Nova Lucy Julian
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Fauna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fauna, updated 20 October 2026.