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The FAYE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,410 18196 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 269 15514 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1141 -2682 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 15 63671 0 1
United Kingdom 133 20848 0 3
Top States for FAYE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 137 16862 0.000 4
New York 109 16464 0.001 6
Texas 79 17881 0.000 4
Florida 68 22936 0.000 4
Massachusetts 67 11113 0.001 11
Top States for FAYE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 11 7167 0.002 18
Hawaii 18 5998 0.001 15
Mississippi 42 5638 0.001 15
Rhode Island 13 10308 0.001 12
Connecticut 37 12031 0.001 11

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FAYE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FAYE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FAYE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FAYE by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FAYE

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of FAYE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 314 22.27
Mixed Race 48 3.4
White (Hispanic) 30 2.13
White (Caucasian) 1,001 70.99
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FAYE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FAYE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FAYE.

Similar names to FAYE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAYE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FAYE

The following words are slight variants of FAYE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.