Spelling: Fay or Faye?

[Kyrie]

Struggling for a girl's name but think I might go for Fay/e.

Which spelling do you prefer Fay or Faye and what do you think of the name generally. Thanks.

[Mouk]

Faye

[MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake]

Fay/e is 12 now and probably slamming her bedroom door in annoyance at this very moment. Or messaging her friend about Harry Styles.

[abovedecknotbelow]

How do even find a ten year old thread?

[Rhaenys]

Faye for a first name, Fay for a middle.

[LucyLoopyLu]

I think I slightly prefer Faye and would have spelt it that way if someone asked me to write it down (before seeing this).

[KirstenBlest]

I much prefer Fay, but Faye seems to be used more.
I remember Fay Lucas on Grange Hill, and there's Fay Weldon.

[anotherpotoftea]

I love it and have known people with both spellings so I don’t think there’s a ‘wrong’ answer!

[RuthW]

Lovely name.

Faye.

[mogwa]

Where is Fay a boy's name? Certainly not in the UK.
And why post this ten years late?

[BestCatMumEver]

Well thank fuck someone’s pointed this out 10 years too late.

[BooksAndHooks]

Faye, looks better and seems to be the more accepted spelling so less correcting people.

[MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake]

The OP from 2010 will be sure to take that on board.

[Eoghain]

Correction: Fay is a boy.

[Eoghain]

Correction:
The girl's name is spelled Faye. The spelling Fay is for a boy.
Just as, when you see the name Frances or Francis, you know the person is female or male, respectively. The same is true for Faye is a girl and Fay is a boy.

[Eoghain]

The girl's name is spelled Faye. The spelling Fay is for a boy.
Just as, when you see the name Frances or Francis, you know the person is female or male, respectively. The same is true for Faye is a girl and Faye is a boy.

[juneybean]

I prefer Fay.

[KatnKankles]

My best friend is Fay but I also know a Faye. For some reason I much prefer Faye.. looks more feminine, in the same way as you have Katherine or Catherine.

It's definitely not in the creative spelling category. Unless of course you decided on Faiye or Faeye (Faeye actually looks quite nice now I look at it)...

[AllieW]

invented

[AllieW]

Yes, Fay is the original spelling. It was inventend in the 19th century from the vocabulary word 'fey' which means fairy. I like it both with and without the e but would probably lean more towards Fay.

[Kyrie]

I could be wrong but my research seems to say that Faye is a varient of Fay so Fay must be the 'original' and Faye the creatively spelt one.

[CaptianPicardsPineapple]

Either is fine but I reckon I'd go Faye.

[crumpet]

Interesting one - I am usually dead against "creative" spellings, but for some reason Faye looks right. Have no idea whether Faye is a more recent spelling or if they have always coexisted.

[addictedtomn]

is fay the original spelling? my name is xxxxx-Fay and every one always assumes its faye it was especially horrendous at school with teachers who couldn't remember or just didnt care, and then when i correct them, they say, well thats an unusual spelling of the name. in fact there is a joke in the family that when my dad (who is a notorious bad speller) went to register my birth he miss-spelt it and left the e off the end. when in fact it was done deliberately.

i would suggest that to give your dd n easy life you spell it faye

[jellybeans]

Faye much nicer.