Fae
given name · Latin script
Meaning: English, from Old French: a fairy or magical creature
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fae is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 206K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 332K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
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, CN China, 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
Sources 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Fa | 31 |
| US United States | 1,003 | 1 in 332K | 983 | Fae | 214 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 422 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 206K | 14 | Fae | 82 |
| NL Netherlands | 261 | 1 in 66K | 261 | Fa | 21 |
| SG Singapore | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Fa | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Fae | 20 |
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); 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)
Attested in 40 sources 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- 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 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 Fae have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Fae in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fa.
- 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?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
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 2026-10-10.