Fay

Where Fay comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Fay.

  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Fay through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #466 among girls, with 13 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1893
    Fay Bainter born
    American actress
  4. 1907
    Fay Wray born
    actress
  5. 1907
    Peak, #202
    257 babies named Fay, its best rank.
  6. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #970.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.
Namesakes
  • Fay Bainter · American actress, 1893–1968
  • Fay Wray · actress, 1907–2004
  • Fay Weldon · British writer, 1931–2023
  • Fay McKenzie · American actress, 1918–2019
  • Fay Ajzenberg-Selove · American nuclear physicist, 1926–2012

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.