Fay
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#3,795
down −374 places
2025 births
39
down −7 births
All-time births
32,059
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1926
- 722 births
- Best rank
- #202
- in 1907
- First recorded
- 1880
- #478 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1933
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1926722#243Peak
- 1915701#224
- 1917690#238
- 1920690#250
- 1916676#235
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #202 in 1907 · peak births 722 in 1926
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 11% boys■ 89% girls
4,118 boys · 32,059 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Fay has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.