Fay
Most Poles have never met a Fay: only about fifteen women carry it, and hardly any girls get the name now. It comes from Latin, meaning fairy.
Fay Pronunciation
Fay is pronounced FAH-ih (/ˈfaɨ/).
What Fay means
Where Fay comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fay comes to English from Old French fae, and behind that word stands the Latin fata, the Fates who were thought to spin each human life. That root, from fatum meaning fate, slid over centuries toward the fairy of medieval story. By Middle English it meant a fairy.
In Arthurian legend the sorceress Morgan le Fay wears the word as a byname, le Fay meaning the fairy. Much later Fay Wray, born in 1907, gave the name a face on screen in King Kong in 1933. The spelling stays short. Three letters, one syllable.
There are no common diminutives here, and no cross-gender pair. Fay stands alone. In Polish the meaning lands as wróżka, the same small figure the Latin fata once named.
How many people are named Fay
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Fay. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12014 among female names.
Fay's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Fay as a middle name
Fay is a first name for 15 women in Poland and a middle name for another 21, a 42/58 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1569th, between Else (21) and Felicity (21).
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#1567 Elin21
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#1568 Else21
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#1569 Fay21
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#1570 Felicity21
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#1571 Florentina21