Fay Girl Name

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The name Fay is a diminutive form of Faith. The table below indicates the number of times the name Fay has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Fay**
Use of the Name Fay for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
30,176	3,073	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Fay has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Fay last appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1968, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Fay**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	478	13	471	15
1881	399	18	448	15
1882	302	34	476	15
1883	338	28	466	15
1884	317	39	403	20
1885	285	49	427	18
1886	353	37	342	25
1887	312	47	412	17
1888	295	64	538	14
1889	256	84	420	19
1890	250	99	353	25
1891	253	92	380	21
1892	270	97	429	20
1893	283	89	294	35
1894	242	124	302	34
1895	257	121	401	23
1896	281	107	430	21
1897	236	141	591	13
1898	223	171	398	25
1899	235	139	388	23
1900	249	170	416	30
1901	235	151	365	26
1902	223	181	349	32
1903	219	190	313	36
1904	225	186	499	19
1905	211	215	404	28
1906	212	215	625	15
1907	202	257	677	15
1908	205	266	569	20
1909	228	245	489	28
1910	205	315	590	24
1911	209	337	588	27
1912	213	435	540	55
1913	232	426	477	83
1914	222	564	481	102
1915	224	699	465	140
1916	235	677	459	153
1917	237	689	487	140
1918	248	665	540	124
1919	250	659	491	149
1920	250	690	528	134
1921	270	612	558	127
1922	273	568	556	130
1923	263	599	567	122
1924	278	563	600	113
1925	269	607	576	117
1926	244	718	602	110
1927	254	665	641	97
1928	258	626	669	89
1929	244	653	688	80
1930	250	613	684	84
1931	238	630	657	83
1932	239	658	757	69
1933	248	604	663	78
1934	246	635	667	83
1935	262	542	725	71
1936	262	531	793	60
1937	268	547	899	48
1938	282	498	857	53
1939	278	501	986	42
1940	280	498	815	59
1941	319	429	982	43
1942	309	490	951	49
1943	324	472
1944	349	389
1945	384	334
1946	375	411
1947	387	420
1948	421	351
1949	398	403
1950	409	380
1951	422	391
1952	472	319
1953	501	301
1954	496	320
1955	560	263
1956	519	327
1957	600	264
1958	564	301
1959	614	260
1960	599	275
1961	656	243
1962	684	226
1963	693	212
1964	766	184
1965	792	155
1966	843	140
1967	967	112
1968	991	111
Totals:		30,176		3,600

During the last 125 years, parents have used Fay as a girl's name about 89% of the time and less frequently (about 10% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Fay appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 89 times during the last 125 years.

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