Fae
given name · Latin script
Meaning: English, from Old French: a fairy or magical creature
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries
/fae/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Fae is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 66K(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 100Kfew records
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 120K
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 Fae itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
1,003 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fa in NL Netherlands, SG Singapore.
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)English, from Old French: a fairy or magical creature
Cited for this meaning 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Fae, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fae 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,003 | 1 in 332K | 983 | Fae | 214 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 191K | 14 | Fae | 82 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 422 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 261 | 1 in 66K | 261 | Fa | 21 |
| PH Philippines | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 580K | — | Fae | 38 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 173K | 1 | Fae | 58 |
| SG Singapore | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Fa | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Fae | 20 |
1,003 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Fae is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative spelling of fey (“magical, fairylike”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, official papers, clerk of records #5 a copyist’s room. 5. a manuscript. #5 1E. the draft and correct copy
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Romanian, jimsonweed (Datura stramonium)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of bae
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mqs, to feed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Fae McClung Shawhanb. 1903USbotanist
- Fae Donat Woodb. 1906botanist
- Fae Ellingtonb. 1953JMTV personality
- Fae Myenne Ngb. 1956USAmerican writer
- Baby Faeb. 1984USAmerican xenotransplantee (1984–1984)
- Fae BrauerGBprofessor at University of East London
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 422 | #1,151 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Fae?
- In the etymology graph, Faye and Fay are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Faith and Faithe.
- How do you pronounce Fae?
- In Spanish /fae/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Fae mean, and where does it come from?
- English, from Old French: a fairy or magical creature Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Fae a male or female name?
- Fae is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Fae have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Fae, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fae.
- Where is Fae most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fae is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 66 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fae?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,003 people named Fae in 2020, about 1 in 332 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fae?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faeThe 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, “Fae”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.