Happy

English word name
"happy, joy"

Happy Origin and Meaning

The name Happy is a girl's name of English origin meaning "happy, joy".

Many virtue names have long been in style or have seen a resurgence in recent years. Happy, however joyous, seems unlikely to join this trend. This could be because it doesn't have a solid history of being popularly used (in comparison to Joy or Hope) and because it's such a familiarly used word in day to day life (unlike Verity or Felicity).

It was notably borne by the not-so-happy character Happy Loman in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, by a cat in the anime and manga series, Fairy Tail, and by Happy Quinn from the TV show Scorpion.

Famous People Named Happy

  • Happy Salma
    Indonesian actress and model
  • Margaretta "Happy" Large Fitler Murphy Rockefeller
    widow of U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller
  • Kimberley Tyler "Happy" Rhodes
    American singer,songwriter
  • Monet Happy Mazur
    American actress
  • Happy McNair Hall
    Bahamian male footballer
  • Happy Quinton Jele
    South African male footballer
  • (Jan) Happy Pieterse
    South African boxer
  • Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler
    U.S. Senator and Governor of Kentucky; MLB commissioner
  • Harry Peter "Happy" Traum
    male American folksinger
  • Harold "Happy" Hairston
    American basketball player
  • Oscar Emil "Happy" Felsch
    American baseball player
  • Happy Atticus Mapel (b. 1988)
    son of actress Mare Winningham and William Mapel

Happy in Pop Culture

  • Happy Quinn
    a main character on TV's "Scorpion"
  • Harriet "Happy" Lolly
    character in movie "Gigantic"
  • "Happy Gilmore
    " movie and male main character
  • Happy Loman
    male character in "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller
  • Harold "Happy" Hogan
    (male) character in the Iron Man series
  • Happy Lowman
    male character on TV's Sons of Anarchy
  • Happy
    one of the Seven Dwarfs
  • Happy
    dog on TV's "Seventh Heaven"
  • Happy
    male Exceed/Cat in anime "Fairy Tail"
  • Happy
    Snow Hare on animated series "Tabaluga"
  • Happy Walter Higgenbottom
    dog on animated TV series "The Mighty B!"