Fae — #4190 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Fae

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,643 babies named Fae between 1889 and 2024, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fae currently holds the #4190 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 79 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fae performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 560 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Fae shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 155 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Fae in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fae in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,643 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.