Fâý
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fâý is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fée (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.
- USUnited States1 in 24K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 4.4K
- SESweden1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
13,775 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fay in US United States, PA Panama.
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)
- Middle Englishfaie“a place or person possessed with magical properties”(measured from records)
- Middle Frenchfeie“fairy”(measured from records)
From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fée (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.
Sources 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fâý 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.
13,775 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fâý mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fée (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Fâý a male or female name?
- Fâý is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Fâý have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Fâý, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fay.
- Where is Fâý most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fâý is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fâý?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,775 people named Fâý in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Fâý compared with other names?
- In Panama, Fâý is the 695th most common given name of 24,657 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%A2%C3%BDThe 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, “Fâý” — the 695th most common given name in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.