Fayne
Fayne was last recorded in 1961, when 5 babies were given it; 158 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fayne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,870, in 1961; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1918, the peak
Fayne peaked in 1918, when 11 babies were given it (6 girls, #4,478 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #6,870 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,372 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,004 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 6 | #3,487 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #3,857 | |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,321 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,859 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,464 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,465 | 6 | #3,275 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,504 | 5 | #3,856 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | under 5 | 9 | #2,704 | |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,617 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,219 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,490 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,347 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 8 | #3,233 | |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,274 | 5 | #4,523 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,786 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,526 | |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,478 | 5 | #4,381 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,233 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,540 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Fayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 158 Americans recorded as Fayne, 66% are girls and 34% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Fayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fayne, and how old are they?
An estimated 35 Americans named Fayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 200 people named Fayne (127 women and girls, 73 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 50 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 96,596 babies since 1880, Fayne is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 75 babies recorded by SSA was a Fayne (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Fayne
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 Fayne and names like it
- Compare Fayne and FannieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sFayne peaked in 1918.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Fayne.
- Names starting with FMost given first.