Fâye
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fâye is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Historically most prevalent in Haute-Vienne.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3.5K
- IEIreland≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fâye itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 468 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Faye in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Historically most prevalent in Haute-Vienne.
Sources 6
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fâye counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Faye | 24 |
| US United States | #489 | 37,526 | 1 in 8.9K | 37K | Faye | 468 |
| GB United Kingdom | #395 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 147 | Faye | 246 |
| IT Italy | #841 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 1 | Faye | 26 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Faye | 128 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,245as Fie | 1 in 2.6K | 2.2K | Faye | 19 |
| IE Ireland | #243 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 123 | Faye | 67 |
| NZ New Zealand | #298 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 15 | Faye | 88 |
| GY Guyana | — | 271 | 1 in 2.8K | 271 | — | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fâye mean, and where does it come from?
- Historically most prevalent in Haute-Vienne. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 4 other sources.
- Is Fâye a male or female name?
- Fâye is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Fâye have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 386 thousand people named Fâye in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faye.
- Where is Fâye most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fâye is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fâye?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,526 people named Fâye in 2020, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Fâye compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Fâye is the 243rd most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%A2yeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fâye” — the 243rd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.