Fay
Fay is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. Its best rank was 202nd, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 460.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1926722 births
- Best rank
- #202in 1907
- Since 1880
- 36,137people given the name
The story in the numbers
32,019 girls have been named Fay in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 722 births.
The name has all but left use: 46 births in 2024, against 722 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 4,118 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Fay | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 411 | |
| 1890s | 1,180 | |
| 1900s | 2,078 | |
| 1910s | 5,473 | |
| 1920s | 6,304 | |
| 1930s | 5,762 | |
| 1940s | 4,197 | |
| 1950s | 3,130 | |
| 1960s | 1,740 | |
| 1970s | 524 | |
| 1980s | 316 | |
| 1990s | 170 | |
| 2000s | 229 | |
| 2010s | 311 | |
| 2020s | 194 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Fay was the 243rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Fay
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Berylpeak 1920
- Vernapeak 1918
- Ermapeak 1920
- Lavadapeak 1921
- Myrtispeak 1921
- Albertapeak 1919
- Corinepeak 1920
- Irmapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.