Faye
The girl's name Faye has been in the national records since 1880, with 72,660 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 514th. About 34,000 Fayes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Faye boys named Faye
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 72,660
- Estimated living today
- 34,000
- Median age today
- 69
- Peak year
- 1943
- Best rank
- 163rd
- Rank in 2025
- 514th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 72,142 / 518
How old the living Fayes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 72,660 babies given the name since 1880, about 34,000 are alive — 46 in every hundred. Roughly 6,400 of them are children and 20,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
or other languages.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Fayes
- Faye Dunaway (born 1941)American actress
- Faye Wong (born 1969)Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
- Faye Marsay (born 1986)British actress
- Faye White (born 1978)English association football player
- Faye Grant (born 1957)American actress
- Faye Reagan (born 1988)American pornographic actress
- Faye Emerson (1917–1983)American actress
- Faye Kellerman (born 1952)American writer of mystery novels
People named Faye with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Faye is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Faye is most concentrated in Arkansas (2.6×), Oklahoma (2.2×), North Carolina (2.2×), Alabama (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1943
The most popular girls’ names the year Faye peaked:
Faye elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Faye | 9,129 | 105th |
| Ireland girls | Faye | 2,684 | 43rd |
| Scotland girls | Faye | 852 | 135th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Faye | 710 | 48th |
| Belgium girls | Faye | 544 | 277th |
| Switzerland girls | Faye | 149 | 602nd |
| France girls | Faye | 95 | 4,393rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Faye: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Faye | 131 | 0.011% | 422nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Faye | 17 | 0.004% | 430th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Faye | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Faye is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 51 of them.
Faye: rank by region
In 2025, Faye was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Faye | 370 | 14 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Faye appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (326th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Faye by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Faye among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Faye | 1,926 | 2,775 |
| Finland girls | Faye | 17 | 50 |
| the Netherlands boys | Faye | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Faye against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.