Feige

Girls' name

Variant of Faigel

Feige has been given to 186 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1976, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Feige, 2015

1 in 740,000

Feige over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Feige: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Faigel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Feige means

Feige is a variant of Faigel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Feige is used in Yiddish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Faigel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 186 girls were recorded with the name Feige between 1951 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1976; its best national rank was #4,063 in 1954.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Feige?

Feige had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015: 1 in 740,000; 5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only: 1 in 357,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 513,148 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Feige 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Feige. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Feiges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Feige was born before 1982 — so the typical Feige is around 43 today.

Median birth year: 1982; About 43 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 31.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 186; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Feige 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1976 (12)
Years since peak: 49; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,063; 1954

Spellings of Feige

Feige is not the most common spelling — Paige is, with 65.5% against Feige's 0.08%.

Paige65.5%146,734
Leigh18.0%40,242
Saige5.4%12,119
Reign3.6%7,989
Ferne2.1%4,676
Felice1.9%4,188
Faigy1.6%3,657
Heide0.94%2,103

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Feige is used

Across 1910–2025, Feige was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 78,165 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 100,000

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. Feige has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Feige around the world

Where Feige 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
1999–2018
#4,684
in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Feige 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: —
Best rank ever: #4,063; 1954
Peak year: 1976; 12 that year
First recorded: 1951
Last recorded: 2015
All-time count: 186
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Feige

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

Feiga Feigy Taige Faige Gaige Beige Fei Saige Kaige Nadeige Hedwige Paige

Sibling names for Feige

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

For a sister

Chanda Jason Cary Kevin Karie Brandee Sunshine Sommer

For a brother

Andrea Jamey Torrey Giuseppe Abdul Tory Aric Rodrick

Explore around Feige

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