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Faiga vs Faigy

American parents have registered 3,657 Faigys since 1880, against 1,474 Faigas. Faigy is still ahead, with 176 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Faiga against Faigy, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Faiga Faigy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Faigy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1958 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Faiga had 56 and Faigy had 89.

Side by side

  Faiga Faigy
Total US births 1,4743,657
Most in one year 74176
Babies in 2025 72176
Estimated living today 1,5003,600
Median age today 1213
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 2,434th girls1,272nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,458th1,272nd
First recorded 19791958
Girls / boys 1,474 / 03,657 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Faiga Faigy
England and Wales 7127

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Faiga and Faigy.