Faye
Faye was given to 579 girls in 2025, #515 among girls’ names; 72,660 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,900 Americans named Faye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 41 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Faye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Faye mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Faye is “a female given name, variant of Fay.”
(surname): Borrowed from French Faye or other languages.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Faye?
#515 among girls’ names, 2025
Faye rose from #930 in 2015 to #515 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.16 to 0.36 per 1,000.
1,478 babies in 1943, the peak
Faye peaked in 1943, when 1,478 babies were given it (1,468 girls, #163 among girls’ names). The 579 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 579 | #515 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 563 | #539 | 0.35 |
| 2023 | 612 | #500 | 0.38 |
| 2022 | 537 | #564 | 0.33 |
| 2021 | 496 | #603 | 0.30 |
| 2020 | 414 | #688 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 416 | #695 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 415 | #701 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 405 | #709 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 349 | #824 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 292 | #930 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 297 | #913 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 247 | #1,010 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 234 | #1,070 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 152 | #1,475 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 162 | #1,415 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 137 | #1,633 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,623 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,774 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 111 | #1,836 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 134 | #1,536 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,739 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,129 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,773 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 85 | #1,996 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 83 | #1,999 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,375 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,504 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,333 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,563 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,693 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,265 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 57 | #2,271 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,716 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,897 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 74 | #1,894 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,701 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,892 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 90 | #1,450 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 109 | #1,250 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 109 | #1,252 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 122 | #1,128 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 93 | #1,305 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 127 | #1,108 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 142 | #1,019 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 121 | #1,126 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 164 | #907 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 154 | #920 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 145 | #953 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 128 | #993 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 141 | #920 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 149 | #872 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 125 | #960 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 153 | #850 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 195 | #750 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 204 | #730 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 234 | #654 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 245 | #614 | 0.15 |
| 1967 | 248 | #602 | 0.15 |
| 1966 | 270 | #574 | 0.16 |
| 1965 | 338 | #519 | 0.19 |
| 1964 | 437 | #464 | 0.23 |
| 1963 | 477 | #445 | 0.25 |
| 1962 | 556 | #414 | 0.28 |
| 1961 | 657 | #377 | 0.33 |
| 1960 | 782 | #337 | 0.39 |
| 1959 | 772 | #341 | 0.38 |
| 1958 | 856 | #312 | 0.43 |
| 1957 | 941 | #298 | 0.46 |
| 1956 | 974 | #279 | 0.49 |
| 1955 | 1,029 | #263 | 0.53 |
| 1954 | 1,097 | #245 | 0.56 |
| 1953 | 1,029 | #253 | 0.55 |
| 1952 | 1,221 | #226 | 0.66 |
| 1951 | 1,237 | #219 | 0.69 |
| 1950 | 1,271 | #211 | 0.74 |
| 1949 | 1,292 | #207 | 0.76 |
| 1948 | 1,345 | #200 | 0.79 |
| 1947 | 1,383 | #193 | 0.78 |
| 1946 | 1,422 | #182 | 0.90 |
| 1945 | 1,376 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 1944 | 1,353 | #165 | 1.0 |
| 1943 | 1,468 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 1942 | 1,304 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1941 | 1,377 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 1940 | 1,391 | #153 | 1.2 |
| 1939 | 1,328 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1938 | 1,323 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1937 | 1,300 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 1936 | 1,215 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1935 | 1,257 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1934 | 1,420 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 1933 | 1,202 | #153 | 1.2 |
| 1932 | 1,223 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1931 | 1,188 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1930 | 1,099 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1929 | 1,080 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 1928 | 1,078 | #192 | 0.93 |
| 1927 | 1,093 | #187 | 0.92 |
| 1926 | 1,219 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1925 | 1,011 | #201 | 0.83 |
| 1924 | 920 | #212 | 0.74 |
| 1923 | 984 | #203 | 0.82 |
| 1922 | 924 | #210 | 0.77 |
| 1921 | 989 | #202 | 0.80 |
| 1920 | 935 | #208 | 0.78 |
| 1919 | 925 | #202 | 0.82 |
| 1918 | 932 | #206 | 0.81 |
| 1917 | 931 | #197 | 0.86 |
| 1916 | 865 | #204 | 0.83 |
| 1915 | 790 | #209 | 0.80 |
| 1914 | 663 | #199 | 0.87 |
| 1913 | 561 | #194 | 0.90 |
| 1912 | 459 | #208 | 0.82 |
| 1911 | 388 | #184 | 0.93 |
| 1910 | 312 | #208 | 0.79 |
| 1909 | 261 | #217 | 0.75 |
| 1908 | 311 | #184 | 0.93 |
| 1907 | 268 | #194 | 0.84 |
| 1906 | 239 | #199 | 0.81 |
| 1905 | 189 | #228 | 0.65 |
| 1904 | 214 | #205 | 0.78 |
| 1903 | 190 | #220 | 0.73 |
| 1902 | 183 | #220 | 0.69 |
| 1901 | 161 | #226 | 0.67 |
| 1900 | 194 | #229 | 0.65 |
| 1899 | 125 | #251 | 0.54 |
| 1898 | 153 | #238 | 0.59 |
| 1897 | 148 | #225 | 0.63 |
| 1896 | 132 | #240 | 0.55 |
| 1895 | 118 | #260 | 0.51 |
| 1894 | 121 | #246 | 0.54 |
| 1893 | 107 | #256 | 0.50 |
| 1892 | 97 | #271 | 0.46 |
| 1891 | 70 | #298 | 0.38 |
| 1890 | 59 | #329 | 0.31 |
| 1889 | 55 | #336 | 0.31 |
| 1888 | 56 | #320 | 0.31 |
| 1887 | 42 | #330 | 0.29 |
| 1886 | 36 | #357 | 0.25 |
| 1885 | 30 | #376 | 0.23 |
| 1884 | 23 | #419 | 0.18 |
| 1883 | 14 | #529 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 20 | #410 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 12 | #494 | 0.13 |
| 1880 | 8 | #647 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Faye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Faye has been given almost only to girls: 518 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Faye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Faye, and how old are they?
32,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 45% of the 72,660 Americans ever recorded as Faye. The median Faye alive today is 70 years old; half are between 41 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 37,526 people named Faye (37,416 women and girls, 110 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36,163 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7,120 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,780 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,590 |
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 Faye born?
The states with the most babies named Faye are Texas, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, with 20% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 4,592 | #715 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 4,108 | #801 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,816 | #582 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 2,841 | #874 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 2,781 | #475 | 0.8× |
| New York | 2,743 | #407 | 0.5× |
| California | 2,691 | #543 | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 2,553 | #659 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 2,444 | #502 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 2,395 | #619 | 1.4× |
Where Faye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Faye is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Faye 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, Faye is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 579 of their 668 babies (87%), again the 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 Faye
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 Faye and names like it
- Compare Faye and FayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sFaye peaked in 1943.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Faye since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Faye.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Faye alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.