Faye

Where Faye comes from

* (surname): Borrowed from French Faye or other languages.
— Wiktionary's entry for Faye
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #146
    1,420 babies named Faye — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #377.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Fay.
Namesakes

No widely known Faye turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.