Name meaning & stats
Fay
Fay means “fairy”. 11,514 US babies since 1940, peak 1940.
What it means
“fairy”
Spelling of Faye
In US birth records
Peak year: 1940
11,514 US babies were named Fay between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Fay (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 4 Fayes spell it Fay
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1940)