Foday
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Foday by the numbers
Foday was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 11 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Foday
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Foday. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Fouadheart7 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Foday
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