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Faigy vs Faiza

American parents have registered 3,657 Faigys since 1880, against 1,059 Faizas. Faigy is still ahead, with 176 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Faigy Faiza

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 1984, when Faigy had 13 and Faiza had 11.

Side by side

  Faigy Faiza
Total US births 3,6571,059
Most in one year 17643
Babies in 2025 17635
Estimated living today 3,6001,000
Median age today 1316
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 1,272nd girls3,552nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,272nd4,067th
First recorded 19581973
Girls / boys 3,657 / 01,059 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Faizas alive today are over 16; half the Faigys are over 13. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Faigy Faiza
England and Wales 1271,297
Belgium 3124

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: Faigy and Faiza.