Fae
Fae was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,793 among girls’ names; 2,683 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fae?
#3,793 among girls’ names, 2025
Fae rose from #5,890 in 2015 to #3,793 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 24.3 per million.
79 babies in 1916, the peak
Fae peaked in 1916, when 79 girls were given it, #772 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,793 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,142 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,198 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,496 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,406 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,585 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,193 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,057 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,417 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,767 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,890 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,855 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,550 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,419 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,345 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,410 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,162 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,406 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,393 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,764 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,098 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,270 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,055 | 4.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,460 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,401 | 2.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,487 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,343 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,775 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,539 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,693 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,668 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,814 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,882 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,966 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,638 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,646 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,640 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,506 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,896 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,899 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,022 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,651 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,993 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,134 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,378 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,382 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,950 | 14.6 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,783 | 16.7 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,203 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,976 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,357 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,101 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,520 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,979 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,233 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,804 | 16.5 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,567 | 20.7 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,623 | 19.9 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,706 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,907 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,718 | 19.0 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,289 | 30.1 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,390 | 26.9 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,279 | 30.5 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,223 | 32.6 |
| 1933 | 41 | #1,089 | 40.7 |
| 1932 | 46 | #1,047 | 43.1 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,296 | 30.1 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,298 | 30.2 |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,125 | 38.5 |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,121 | 39.9 |
| 1927 | 62 | #969 | 52.0 |
| 1926 | 54 | #1,015 | 45.6 |
| 1925 | 63 | #940 | 51.8 |
| 1924 | 61 | #978 | 48.8 |
| 1923 | 52 | #1,058 | 43.1 |
| 1922 | 55 | #1,014 | 45.8 |
| 1921 | 61 | #948 | 49.5 |
| 1920 | 63 | #919 | 52.6 |
| 1919 | 58 | #928 | 51.3 |
| 1918 | 61 | #918 | 52.7 |
| 1917 | 70 | #821 | 64.7 |
| 1916 | 79 | #772 | 75.6 |
| 1915 | 65 | #813 | 66.1 |
| 1914 | 52 | #807 | 68.3 |
| 1913 | 38 | #858 | 60.8 |
| 1912 | 32 | #895 | 57.3 |
| 1911 | 27 | #830 | 64.5 |
| 1910 | 31 | #774 | 78.2 |
| 1909 | 22 | #876 | 63.4 |
| 1908 | 28 | #732 | 83.8 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,165 | 37.7 |
| 1906 | 24 | #746 | 81.3 |
| 1905 | 16 | #941 | 54.9 |
| 1904 | 20 | #814 | 72.6 |
| 1903 | 15 | #906 | 57.3 |
| 1902 | 16 | #884 | 60.6 |
| 1901 | 13 | #935 | 54.3 |
| 1900 | 15 | #991 | 50.0 |
| 1899 | 19 | #736 | 81.5 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,575 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 21 | #683 | 89.7 |
| 1896 | 13 | #917 | 54.6 |
| 1895 | 15 | #828 | 64.2 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,093 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 10 | #978 | 47.0 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,035 | 42.4 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,137 | 37.7 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,190 | 33.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fae, and how old are they?
An estimated 928 Americans named Fae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 6 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,003 people named Fae (983 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 848 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Fae born?
The states with the most babies named Fae are Pennsylvania, Utah and Texas, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 155 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Utah | 58 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Texas | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 111,629 babies since 1880, Fae is the third most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 668 babies (5.8%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fae and names like it
- Compare Fae and FayeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sFae peaked in 1916.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fae since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Fae.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fae alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.