Faiga
Faiga was given to 72 girls in 2025, #2,465 among girls’ names; 1,474 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Faiga and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Faiga by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Faiga?
#2,465 among girls’ names, 2025
Faiga rose from #3,268 in 2015 to #2,465 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.0 to 44.8 per million.
74 babies in 2024, the peak
Faiga peaked in 2024, when 74 girls were given it, #2,445 among girls’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,465 | 44.8 |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,445 | 45.7 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,599 | 42.4 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,706 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,759 | 37.8 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,109 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,517 | 41.7 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,452 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,980 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,838 | 33.9 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,268 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,014 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,189 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,022 | 31.8 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,367 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,228 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,060 | 30.5 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,932 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,073 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,093 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,972 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,747 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,309 | 24.1 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,749 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,875 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,100 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,287 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,434 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,942 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,487 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,896 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,730 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,165 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,105 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,094 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,555 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,118 | 6.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,297 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,183 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,432 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,384 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,452 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,677 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Faiga a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Faiga has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Faiga: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Faiga, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,474 Americans ever recorded as Faiga. The median Faiga alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 895 people named Faiga (887 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,086 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 142 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 541 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 773 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Faiga born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 43 | #406 | 9.8× |
| New Jersey | 24 | #343 | 8.5× |
Where Faiga is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Faiga is most over-represented in New York: since 1979 it was given 9.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Faiga 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,328 babies since 1880, Faiga is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 248 babies (29%), again the second 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 Faiga
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 Faiga and names like it
- Compare Faiga and FaigyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFaiga peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Faiga since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Faiga.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Faiga alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.