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Faye

proper nounattested in dialogue

A female given name, variant of Fay.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name, variant of Fay.

    Ten years ago, shortly before her sister married her husband, Bobby Gow, she announced to the family that she did not want to be known as Faith any longer; henceforward her name was to be Faye.

    Judge Merrilee Ehrlich was seen in video of the April 15 court appearance yelling at Sandra Faye Twiggs. The 59-year-old was in court on a simple battery charge after a dispute over a fan at her home in Lauderhill.

  2. 2

    A surname.

Etymology

* (surname): Borrowed from French Faye or other languages.

Forms

plural
Fayes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).