Pixie

Swedish or Cornish
"fairy"

Pixie Origin and Meaning

The name Pixie is a girl's name of Celtic, Swedish, Cornish origin meaning "fairy".

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.

# 1141 on Nameberry

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Pixie Popularity

Famous People Named Pixie

  • (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'