Fay — #3380 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Fay

The Social Security Administration has registered 32,019 babies named Fay between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fay currently holds the #3380 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 722 babies received it in a single year. Fay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,118 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fay performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 6,304 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Fay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 3,025 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Fay in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fay 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 32,019 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.