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How popular is “Faye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Faye” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Faye” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Faye” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Faye” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Faye” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Faye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Faye” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 8 0.000039705 8 100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 100%
1882 20 0.00009028 20 100%
1883 14 0.000064532 14 100%
1884 23 0.000094471 23 100%
1885 30 0.000124557 30 100%
1886 36 0.000141002 36 100%
1887 42 0.000169771 42 100%
1888 56 0.000186995 56 100%
1889 55 0.000190347 55 100%
1890 59 0.000195753 59 100%
1891 70 0.000244181 70 100%
1892 97 0.000290094 97 100%
1893 107 0.000329005 107 100%
1894 121 0.000357259 121 100%
1895 118 0.000336163 118 100%
1896 132 0.000369247 132 100%
1897 148 0.000426566 148 100%
1898 153 0.000401096 153 100%
1899 125 0.000368477 125 100%
1900 194 0.000430864 194 100%
1901 166 0.00048003 161 5 94%
1902 188 0.000486123 183 5 95%
1903 195 0.000511542 190 5 95%
1904 214 0.000530379 214 100%
1905 189 0.000445837 189 100%
1906 239 0.000557823 239 100%
1907 268 0.000575861 268 100%
1908 311 0.000636449 311 100%
1909 266 0.00052032 261 5 96%
1910 312 0.000528177 312 100%
1911 394 0.000611537 388 6 97%
1912 467 0.000472642 459 8 97%
1913 574 0.000504788 561 13 95%
1914 670 0.000473049 663 7 98%
1915 810 0.000442037 790 20 95%
1916 881 0.000455434 865 16 96%
1917 945 0.000470911 931 14 97%
1918 948 0.000436643 932 16 97%
1919 940 0.000445446 925 15 97%
1920 949 0.000419421 935 14 97%
1921 1003 0.000429641 989 14 97%
1922 937 0.000409321 924 13 97%
1923 998 0.000433446 984 14 97%
1924 936 0.000393011 920 16 97%
1925 1021 0.000437577 1011 10 98%
1926 1233 0.000537043 1219 14 98%
1927 1109 0.00047815 1093 16 97%
1928 1086 0.000480332 1078 8 99%
1929 1088 0.000496314 1080 8 99%
1930 1112 0.00050016 1099 13 98%
1931 1198 0.000569287 1188 10 98%
1932 1242 0.000588266 1223 19 97%
1933 1216 0.000608168 1202 14 98%
1934 1428 0.000687591 1420 8 99%
1935 1263 0.000604335 1257 6 99%
1936 1226 0.00059011 1215 11 98%
1937 1309 0.000614361 1300 9 99%
1938 1336 0.000603822 1323 13 98%
1939 1336 0.000606324 1328 8 99%
1940 1408 0.00061146 1391 17 98%
1941 1382 0.000567225 1377 5 99%
1942 1314 0.000480998 1304 10 98%
1943 1478 0.000523638 1468 10 99%
1944 1358 0.000504818 1353 5 99%
1945 1384 0.000521691 1376 8 99%
1946 1422 0.000445028 1422 100%
1947 1394 0.000386973 1383 11 98%
1948 1353 0.000391888 1345 8 99%
1949 1292 0.000370756 1292 100%
1950 1279 0.000365078 1271 8 99%
1951 1245 0.000337972 1237 8 99%
1952 1228 0.000323328 1221 7 99%
1953 1034 0.000268317 1029 5 99%
1954 1105 0.000277589 1097 8 99%
1955 1029 0.000256284 1029 100%
1956 983 0.000238416 974 9 98%
1957 948 0.000225599 941 7 99%
1958 864 0.000209003 856 8 98%
1959 777 0.000186869 772 5 99%
1960 782 0.000188261 782 100%
1961 657 0.000158607 657 100%
1962 555 0.000137534 555 100%
1963 477 0.000120509 477 100%
1964 443 0.000113952 437 6 97%
1965 338 0.00009323 338 100%
1966 270 0.000077683 270 100%
1967 249 0.000073345 249 100%
1968 245 0.000072519 245 100%
1969 234 0.000067332 234 100%
1970 204 0.000056564 204 100%
1971 195 0.000056812 195 100%
1972 153 0.00004868 153 100%
1973 125 0.000041433 125 100%
1974 149 0.000049013 149 100%
1975 141 0.000046698 141 100%
1976 128 0.000042184 128 100%
1977 145 0.000045648 145 100%
1978 154 0.000048521 154 100%
1979 164 0.000049294 164 100%
1980 121 0.000035128 121 100%
1981 142 0.000041048 142 100%
1982 127 0.000036203 127 100%
1983 93 0.000026853 93 100%
1984 122 0.000034969 122 100%
1985 109 0.00003054 109 100%
1986 109 0.000030643 109 100%
1987 90 0.000024961 90 100%
1988 65 0.000017591 65 100%
1989 80 0.000020809 80 100%
1990 74 0.000018722 74 100%
1991 74 0.000018997 74 100%
1992 87 0.000022649 87 100%
1993 57 0.000015118 57 100%
1994 58 0.000015601 58 100%
1995 45 0.000012288 45 100%
1996 49 0.000013435 49 100%
1997 57 0.000015721 57 100%
1998 55 0.000014953 55 100%
1999 62 0.000016785 62 100%
2000 83 0.000021958 83 100%
2001 85 0.000022707 85 100%
2002 102 0.000027285 102 100%
2003 82 0.000021566 82 100%
2004 111 0.000029051 111 100%
2005 134 0.000034852 134 100%
2006 111 0.000028057 111 100%
2007 121 0.000030268 121 100%
2008 140 0.000035617 140 100%
2009 137 0.000035862 137 100%
2010 162 0.000043834 162 100%
2011 152 0.000041555 152 100%
2012 234 0.00006398 234 100%
2013 247 0.000067752 247 100%
2014 297 0.000080132 297 100%
2015 292 0.000078899 292 100%
2016 349 0.000095129 349 100%
2017 405 0.000113249 405 100%
2018 415 0.000118035 415 100%
2019 416 0.000119852 416 100%
2020 414 0.000123931 414 100%
2021 496 0.000146401 496 100%
2022 537 0.000158729 537 100%
2023 612 0.000184827 612 100%
2024 559 0.000167943 559 100%

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