How Many People Are Named Fae?
people named Fae are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 361,294 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,683 babies named Fae in Social Security records from 1889 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
79 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of FAY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Fae in English. Counting Fae and these spellings together, about 44,868 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Fae in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Fae alive today is about 38 years old, and 54% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 74 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Fae first appears in the records in 1889 and was given most often in 1916, to 79 babies. In 2025, 39 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1889 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Fae has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #683, in 1897. In 2025 it ranked #3,793.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,793 |
| Best rank | #683 (1897) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #999 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Fae alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Fae were born in California than in any other state: about 30 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Fae was given 26.5 times as often in Utah and 4.8 times in Pennsylvania.
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