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Fa

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

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Meaning

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

How popular is Fa around the world?

Fa does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick. At the 2022 census, 61 people in Brazil were named Fa, ranked 58,130th, with a median age of 40.

Fa is on the official records of Brazil.

United States

under 5 a year

Fa does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Brazil

At the 2022 census, 61 people in Brazil were named Fa, ranked 58,130th, with a median age of 40.
Among people named Fa living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.

peak 1980s1980s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.

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