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Pixie

Pixie is a girl's name that peaked in 1955, when it was the 1,691st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 560 Pixies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Pixie

By the numbers

Total US births
617
Estimated living today
560
Median age today
18
Peak year
1955
Best rank
1,691st
Rank in 2025
13,208th
First recorded
1946

How old the living Pixies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 617 babies given the name since 1946, about 560 are alive — 90 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Pixies

People named Pixie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Pixie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Pixie is most concentrated in California (6.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1955

The most popular girls’ names the year Pixie peaked:

All the names of 1955

Pixie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Pixie 1,589 350th
Scotland girls Pixie 84 376th
Belgium girls Pixie 76 834th
Ireland girls Pixie 75 396th
Northern Ireland girls Pixie 36 246th
France girls Pixie 15 7,077th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Pixie: rank by region

In 2020, Pixie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Pixie 839 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Pixie among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Pixie 6

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.