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Fay

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name1 syllable2 tokens

Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Recorded as

Girls

In 2025

#3,795 for girls

Peak

1911, #208

Since 1880

36,177 babies

On licences

27 dogs in New York

Charting: Fay

Figure 1. Human babies named Fay, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Fay was given to 39 girls in 2025, ranking 3,795th for the year. It peaked in 1911, when it ranked 208th and went to 339 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has climbed 406 places since 2020. It is also on 27 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,295th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Fay, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Fay yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Rare enough that the name is yours in the workspace, and common enough that it is a name.

Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2025. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Fay · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent