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Fay
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fay fầy
English
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Alternative forms
female given name Faye
Pronunciation
fā, en /feɪ/
Homophones: fey
en eɪ 1
Proper noun
en Anglo-Irish nicknames, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.
en Irish, anglicized from ga Ó Fiaich and ga Ó Fathaigh. (see Fahey.)
en female, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.
en Nico Lang “Simply Trying to Exist”: How Trans Americans Are Navigating the Confusion and Chaos of Trump’s Passport Policy Them (magazine) Them https://www.them.us/story/trans-americans-navigating-trump-passport-policy-changes-documents-gender-markers 2025-03-03 Fay Mortenson, 50, tells Them that she “dropped to the floor sobbing” after getting her 16-year-old son’s passport back with an “F” on it. When she saw in the State Department’s online database in February that the passport had been “approved,” Mortenson prayed that, for some reason, they had been spared the agonies others were suffering. https://web.archive.org/web/20261005231624/https://www.them.us/story/trans-americans-navigating-trump-passport-policy-changes-documents-gender-markers 5 October 2026
A place name:
en commune in dept/Orne r/Normandy c/France.
en commune in dept/Sarthe r/Pays de la Loire c/France.
en commune in dept/Somme r/Hauts-de-France c/France.
en ucomm co/Ozark County s/Missouri c/USA.
en CDP co/Dewey County s/Oklahoma c/USA.
Anagrams
en afy FYA YAF
en diminutives of female given names