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Fay

Pronounced /feɪ/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1916 · #458
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:46 in 2024 (#3,414)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No boys were recorded as Fay in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1916 with 153 babies, ranked #458.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 4,118 boys have been named Fay since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Fay per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0
    Millennials
  6. 0
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,171 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Silent: 1,102 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 348 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 54 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/feɪ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Fay, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Foy

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19212024