Faya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

3registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
10years from first to last
#418highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#4763
2017	#4063
2019	#5591
2022	#4645
2024	#5891
2025	#4867

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 6 of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025.

In 2025: #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4867 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2016–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded2016
First recorded at #4763 among girls in England and Wales in 2016 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #4867 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Faya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 6 years beginning in 2016, and has registered 23 births with the name.

Faya across 2 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.

Faya'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	#4763 (2016)	#4063 (2017)	#4867 (2025)	6 of 10	23 (2016–2025)	5 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#868 (2016)	#621 (2019)	#885 (2025)	5 of 10	20 (2016–2025)	5 (2017)

Faya appears in

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

Names recorded by exactly 3 registrars

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2016 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #418 in Northern Ireland in 2022.

Faya'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#4867	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	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.

Where Faya is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Faya, between 2016 and 2025, in 7 of those 10 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	2016–2025	6	#4063 in 2017
Republic of Ireland	2016–2025	5	#621 in 2019
Northern Ireland	2022	1	#418 in 2022

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2016 and 2025, ranked in 7 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #418, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 5 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 6 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.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
2 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
4separate stretches the record falls into4 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#885position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
6 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 6 to 10 years →
5births registered in its largest year, 2017Under 25 births →

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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Fayth · #705, 20y

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.

Ardan · #416, 7y
Aironas · #415, 11y
Dominiks · #421, 12y
Alvey · #414, 9y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Ardan · #416, 7y
Dominiks · #421, 12y
Neitas · #415, 13y
Dilanas · #414, 14y

Faya was ranked #418 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2022. 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.

Adelaide#418
Aisling#418
Aiveen#418
Alaia#418

Faya 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 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Faya without appearing here.

Faya moved ahead of

Shauna
In 2024 they stood at #5891 and #4192 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #4867 and #5927.
Tracy
In 2024 they stood at #5891 and #4843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #4867 and #5927.

Moved ahead of Faya

Finley
In 2016 they stood at #4763 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #3583.

What is known about Faya

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 2016–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 2016 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #418 in Northern Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Faya

Faya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Faya across 2 official records

Faya appears in

Popularity data

Where Faya is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Faya

Faya and the names beside it

Faya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Faya

What is known about Faya

Faya at a glance

Faya across 2 official records

Faya appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Faya

Faya and the names beside it

Faya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Faya