...to think Fay is the original spelling (name)???

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I know Faye is now more commonly used, but Fay is the original, correct?

I know several Faye's. Not one of them spells is 'Fay'

I know a Fay. I always thought it came from 'Fae' for fairy.

No, I know Faye is now the spelling used for a name. However, Fay is the original.

What proof do you have that either was the original?

I have a Faye, without the e it just looks unfinished iykwim but am not sure if either is incorrect🤔

Looks like Fay came first, but Faye is now more popular (at least in the UK).

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2013/11/faye.html

I knew a couple of Fays in the 80s. Deffo no e then.

Does it matter? If you want to use Fay, use Fay.

Ann was the original English version and Anne (French version) became popular later. There are still people with both spellings Pick the one you like best.

I have a Faye, it looks prettier with the E on the end IMO. And I can't be the only one to think that as that seems to have become the more common spelling.

Is it not a diminutive of faith?

I'm more familiar with Fay as the spelling, because of Fay Weldon and Fay Ripley. I can't think of anyone with the first name Faye.

Is it not a diminutive of faith?

No it's from the Middle English word for fairy

It's a relatively new name, first bring recorded in the 1890s.

Faye might be slightly newer, but there really isn't much in it.

Any particular reason why it matters?

It came in as a name as a pet form of Faith, and the saying 'by my fay' (related to 'foy')

There isn't any known relationship between the homonym vocabulary word for fairy, and the name.

1890's?

I think Fay Davis (born 1873) might disagree?

we have a fae in our family... so many people now like something a bit different its often hard to track what the original was. and why I always ask for spellings of names when i meet someone new 😂

Fay Wray was King King's crush in 1933, and Fay Fife was a singer with the Rezillos/Revillos in the late 70's. Faye Tozer has been in Steps since the 90's.

I have Faye as one of my middle names and was born in the mid seventies. It's always seemed a bit of that time, iyswim? As a historian, I suspect that Fay came first as a derivative of 'fey' but there's probably not much in it tbh.

Fae from faery

My apologies, my go-to names etymology tome is British, and won't necessarily reflect US usages.

Just idly wondering if she helped the transfer of NN to given name, as she arrived in England in the 1890s

I would have said Fay was popular first.

Nope, Fae is the original. Fay and Faye both more recent variants. My good friend has a Fae.

My friend is a Faye - born in 1969

Since when has Fae been the original? Fay is.