Fay is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Fay is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Fay. In the SmartGenius ranking, Fay is #3,729 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 25,667 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Fay. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Fay annualy. This means that there have been girls named Fay who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Fay have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Fay even more than any other time: in 1903, it holds its present record of #186 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Fay was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Fay has never been ranked higher than #186. In 2022, she rivaled the 3,437 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 38 girls named Fay were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Fay were born, there have been 16 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an F. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With only three letters, the name Fay is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.2% of all girls' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with F that are quite popular, the most common at present is Frances.
If your name is Fay and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Fay, you can simply say:
Fox
Apple
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Fay
Fay
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
F
A
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
F
A
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Fay sounds like this:
