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Fe

Girls' name

Faith

Fe has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Fe, 2023

1 in 663,000

Fe over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fe: meaning, origin, and history

Faith

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fe means

Fe means “faith”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fe is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈfe/ for Fe.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 115 girls were recorded with the name Fe between 1960 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2007; its best national rank was #6,237 in 1964.

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 Fe?

Fe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fe 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fe was born before 2008 — so the typical Fe is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
115
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Fe 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (9)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,237
1964

Fe by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,237
1964
Peak year
2007
9 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
115
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fe

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

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Sibling names for Fe

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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