Pixie
About Pixie
Pixie is a cute -- quite possibly too cute -- name that suddenly feels possible thanks to the craze for names that contain the letter x. Though its origin may be uncertain, a pixie is internationally recognized as a sprite or fairy: tiny, sometimes green, usually pointy-eared.
As of October 2026, Pixie ranked #14510 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1723 in 1955.
Editor's take: The name Pixie is a girl's name of Celtic, Swedish, Cornish origin meaning "fairy".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
World rankings
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Pixie.
- Bloom
- Honey
- Moxie
- November
- Love
- Tigerlily
- Coral
- Fawn
- Petal
- Tuesday
- October
- Alaska
- January
- Maple
- Bluebell
- Bambi
- Story
- Bliss
- Sparrow
- December
Pixie on lists
Famous Pixies
- (Little) Pixie Geldof
English model and singer; daughter of musician Bob Geldof
- Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott
English singer,songwriter and actress
- Bernadette Anne "Pixie" McKenna
Irish physician and TV presenter
- Pixie O'Harris (born Rhona Olive Harris)
Australian artist
- Pamela Colman "Pixie" Smith
English artist and illustrator
- Pikiteora Maude Emily Gertrude Edith "Pixie" Williams
New Zealand pop singer
- Pixie Davies
English child actress
Pixie in pop culture
- Pixie Townsend
Anthony Kroesig's wife in The Pursuit of Love (1945) by Nancy Mitford
- Pixie aka Megan Gwynn
character in the X,Men series
- "The Secret Destiny of Pixie Piper
" novel by Annabelle Fisher
- Pixie
male mouse in animated series "Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks"
- "Pixie Hollow
" Disney online role playing game starring Peter Pan's Tinkerbell
- Pixie dust
substance used to fly in J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan"
- "PopPixie
" Italian animated series
- The Pixies
American band
- Pixy Stix
candy
- Pyxie
aka flowering moss, a type of shrubby evergreen plant with small, star,like blossoms
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl
stock character in fiction
- Sandra Louise 'Pixie' Mason
character in television's 'Prisoner Cell Block H'