Fäi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fäi is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.4Kas Fay(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 7.4Kas Fay
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.4Kas Fay
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fäi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 427 (measured from records)
- 1 in 196K (inferred from the name graph)
13,775 named Fay, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Fay in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more.
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)[항공], 프랑스 어, 국제 항공 연맹, Fédération Aeronautique Internationale
Cited for this meaning 2
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fäi 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #916 | 13,775as Fay | 1 in 24K | 15K | Fay | 427 |
| GB United Kingdom | #653 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 3 | Fay | 204 |
| AU Australia | #601 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 67 | Fay | 177 |
| CA Canada | #922 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | Fay | 149 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Fay | 24 |
| NZ New Zealand | #393 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 13 | Fay | 61 |
| JM Jamaica | #109 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Fay | 12 |
| GY Guyana | — | 171as Fay | 1 in 4.4K | 171 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 88 | 1 in 196K | 3K | Fay | 55 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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
- Is Fäi a male or female name?
- Fäi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Fäi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Fay, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Fäi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fäi is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 196 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fäi?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 88 people named Fäi, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
- How common is Fäi compared with other names?
- In the United States, Fäi is the 916th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%A4iThe 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, “Fäi” — the 916th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.