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Fayrene vs Fayth

American parents have registered 2,055 Fayths since 1880, against 584 Fayrenes. Fayth is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Fayrene against Fayth, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Fayrene Fayth

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 96 years in which either name was published, Fayth for 52 years and Fayrene for 44 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Fayrene Fayth
Total US births 5842,055
Most in one year 28113
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 2002,000
Median age today 8019
Peak year 19362004
Best rank 1,375th girls1,714th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,107th
First recorded 19121952
Girls / boys 584 / 02,055 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Fayrenes alive today are over 80; half the Fayths are over 19. That is 61 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Fayrene and Fayth.