Fay

girls:

32k births since 1880

#786 (86th percentile)

boys:

4.1k births since 1880

#1903 (58th percentile)

overall:

36.1k births since 1880

#1315 (83rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fay".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
31,973
Peak Births
722
Peak Year
1926
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
61.4%
Current Percentile
3.1%
Peak Rank
#186
Current Rank
#918
Female statistics
Total Births
4,118
Peak Births
153
Peak Year
1916
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
28.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#176
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Fay

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Fay. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Fay is pronounced as fay.

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100.0%
fay (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
F EY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Fay. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Fay, please vote using the thumbs up button.

fay (1 syllable)
1 name 71.5k births
F EY0

Names with this pronunciation:

fai (1 syllable)
2 names 3.1k births
F AY1

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like F EY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.