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Fae

#3,793 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Fay

Fae has been given to 2,683 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #3,793 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Fae, 2025

1 in 85,000

Fae over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fae: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Fay

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fae means

Fae is a variant of Fay.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fae → Fay. The family’s proposed meaning is “fairy”, recorded in the naming reference for Fay.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fay.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,683 girls were recorded with the name Fae between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 1916; its best national rank was #683 in 1897.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,585 in 2020 to #3,793 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,890 in 2015 to #3,793 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Fae?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 41,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,793
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Faes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fae was born before 1929 — so the typical Fae is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
794
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (560).

Is Fae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+349
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+792
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,097
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.4%
Peak was 1916 (79)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#683
1897

Where Fae is used

Across 1910–2025, Fae was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 186,473 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 20,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fae around the world

Where Fae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–1955
    #502
    in 1955

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Fae

People whose public names include Fae, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fae in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Fae. Linked forms have their own page here.

Faye

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Fae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,793
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 792
Best rank ever
#683
1897
Peak year
1916
79 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,683
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Fae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Fae

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Fae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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