Fairy - Meaning of Fairy

What does Fairy mean?

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Fairy

[ 2 syll. fai-ry, fa-iry ] The baby girl name Fairy is pronounced as FEH-Riy- †. Fairy is largely used in the English language and its origin is also English. The meaning of the name is supernatural sprite.

Fairy is a variant transcription of the name Fayre.

Fairy has 14 variant transcriptions. Variation transcriptions of Fairy include Faeree, Faerey, Faeri, Faerie, Faery, Fairee, Fairey, Fairi, Fairie, Fayree, Fayrey, Fayri, Fayrie, and Fayry.

See also the related categories, english and supernatural.

Fairy is unusual as a baby girl name. Its usage peaked modestly in 1905 with 0.010% of baby girls being given the name Fairy. It was #624 in rank then. The baby name has substantially declined in popularity since then, and is now of very light use. Among all girl names in its family, Fairy was nonetheless the most frequently used in 2018.

Baby names that sound like Fairy include Faeri, Fairee, Fairey, Fairi, Fairie, Fary, Fabri, Faeree, Faerey, Faery, Fara, Faraa, Farah, Farey, Fari, Farie, Farih, Farli, Farlie, and Faro.

† Pronunciation for Fairy: F as in "fee (F.IY)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"