Faya is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Faye, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Faya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #6,739 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #6,739 in 2024; #9,052 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Faya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,052 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #6,739.
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Faya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #6,739 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 17 (2024).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Faya, making it the 9,052nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,313 places from #6,739 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 17 girls named Faya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,739, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 17. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Faya in 10 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2010 with 6 babies. In all, 109 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 77 babies named Faya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US girls were named Faya; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Faye (72,660 babies since 1880), Fay (36,177 babies since 1880) and Fae (2,683 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Faya 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.
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).