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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Old French : Fairy

Girl name variations

Fay

Fay

- 12% this year
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Faye

Faye

+ 8% this year
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Fae

Fae

- 2% this year
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Fai

Fai

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Faie

Faie

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Faya

Faya

- 8% this year
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Fayah

Fayah

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Fayana

Fayana

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Fayette

Fayette

- 29% this year
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Fei

Fei

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Feya

Feya

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Feyah

Feyah

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Feye

Feye

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How Popular Is The Name Fey

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Fay.
  • Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood.
  • German : nickname for a vagrant, from Middle High German vēhe ‘enmity’, ‘strife’.
  • German : from a popular medieval pet form of the female personal name Sophie, honored as a martyr and saint.
  • Danish : unexplained.

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