Fae

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Fae: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Fae: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #397 in 2020, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
41times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#397highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1666
1998	#2701
1999	#1675
2000	#1313
2001	#1870
2002	#2540
2003	#1552
2004	#2530
2005	#1243
2006	#2137
2007	#2085
2008	#2022
2009	#2759
2010	#2104
2011	#2150
2012	#2521
2013	#2649
2014	#2314
2015	#1961
2016	#3214
2017	#2925
2018	#2187
2019	#3151
2020	#2300
2021	#2499
2022	#2325
2023	#2689
2024	#2253

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2253 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1755 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2014–2024
Highest recorded position: #397 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2014–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Fae appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 298 births with the name.

Fae across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Fae's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#1243 (2005)	#2253 (2024)	29 of 29	298 (1996–2024)	19 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#910 (2010)	#718 (2025)	#718 (2025)	9 of 16	30 (2010–2025)	4 (2016)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2014)	#397 (2020)	#407 (2024)	3 of 11	9 (2014–2024)	3 (2014)

Fae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Fae in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	34	4 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	109	10 of 10	11
2010s	102	10 of 10	10
2020s	53	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Fae appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #397 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Fae's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2253	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2300	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2022	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1243	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1552	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1313	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1675	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #397, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 18 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lizzie · #397, 30y
Molly-Mae · #397, 29y
Shiloh · #397, 29y
Shreya · #397, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aneesa · #397, 29y
Harriette · #397, 29y
Liadan · #397, 20y
Lizzie · #397, 30y

Fae was ranked #397 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Fae and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Fae without appearing here.

Fae moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2300 and #5493.
Brittany Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2925 and #2925 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2187 and #4684.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2925 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2187 and #4684.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Fae

Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1870 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2540 and #938.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2300 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2499 and #1286.
Alma Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1243 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #1087.
Ada Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1552 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2530 and #1617.

Moved the same way as Fae

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Fae went from #1755 to #2689 and Kristin from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Fae went from #1755 to #2689 and Therese from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Fae went from #1755 to #2689 and Tracey from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Fae went from #1755 to #2499 and Carol from #802 to #3519.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #397 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Fae

Fae at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fae across 3 official records

Fae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Fae appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Fae at a glance

Fae across 3 official records

Fae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Fae

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Fae moved ahead of

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