Entry № 3269 · Latin origin

Fauna Fauna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FAW-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Goddess of nature and animals"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of nature and animals".

Fauna is the Roman goddess of nature, animals and the fertile earth — her name still means the animal life of a place.

Green and gentle, it is a name for a lover of the wild.

Goddess of nature and animals — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Fauna
Transliteration
Fauna
Pronunciation
/ ˈfɔː.na /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fauna stands.

Fauna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Faunas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Fauna.

The number behind Fauna.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fauna reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.