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Fa

girl name
Origin
Cantonese
Syllables
1
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

flower (花); a classic Cantonese given-name element

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890srare in US records2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Fa has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

See popularity in Brazil

Popularity in Brazil

61 people · the #58,130 first name in Brazil · median age 40

1980s

Among people named Fa living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.

Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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The Fa deep dive

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Fa truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Fa fits with your family’s names and surname.

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