Meaning not yet researched.
Fae: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #683 in 1897.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #683 in 1897; #3,794 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fae in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,794 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1897, at #683.
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Fae: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 girls in 2025. Peak: #683 in 1897 · most girls in one year: 79 (1916).
In 2025, 39 US girls were named Fae, making it the 3,794th most common girls’ name of the year, up 349 places from #4,143 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 35 girls named Fae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #683, reached in 1897. The most girls given the name in a single year was 79, in 1916. For comparison, it was #5,892 in 2015 and #2,204 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fae in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 6 babies. In all, 2,683 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 560 babies named Fae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 358 US girls were named Fae; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,212 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Faye (72,660 babies since 1880) and Fay (36,177 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Fae in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,794 | — | — |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,143 | — | — |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,497 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,194 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,419 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,768 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,892 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,857 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,554 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,422 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,349 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,414 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,168 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,412 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,399 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,769 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,105 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,276 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,063 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,465 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,408 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,492 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,345 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,777 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,541 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,695 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,670 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,816 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,883 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,967 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,639 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,647 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,507 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,897 | — | — |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,023 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,652 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,994 | — | — |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,379 | — | — |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,980 | — | — |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1933 | 41 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1932 | 46 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1927 | 62 | #969 | — | — |
| 1926 | 54 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1925 | 63 | #940 | — | — |
| 1924 | 61 | #978 | — | — |
| 1923 | 52 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1922 | 55 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1921 | 61 | #948 | — | — |
| 1920 | 63 | #919 | — | — |
| 1919 | 58 | #928 | — | — |
| 1918 | 61 | #918 | — | — |
| 1917 | 70 | #821 | — | — |
| 1916 | 79 | #772 | — | — |
| 1915 | 65 | #813 | — | — |
| 1914 | 52 | #807 | — | — |
| 1913 | 38 | #858 | — | — |
| 1912 | 32 | #895 | — | — |
| 1911 | 27 | #830 | — | — |
| 1910 | 31 | #774 | — | — |
| 1909 | 22 | #876 | — | — |
| 1908 | 28 | #732 | — | — |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1906 | 24 | #746 | — | — |
| 1905 | 16 | #941 | — | — |
| 1904 | 20 | #814 | — | — |
| 1903 | 15 | #906 | — | — |
| 1902 | 16 | #884 | — | — |
| 1901 | 13 | #935 | — | — |
| 1900 | 15 | #991 | — | — |
| 1899 | 19 | #736 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1897 | 21 | #683 | — | — |
| 1896 | 13 | #917 | — | — |
| 1895 | 15 | #828 | — | — |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #978 | — | — |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,191 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).