Female first name (English): Faye, the fairy: Old English (Arthurian legend); fae = the fairy fate = fate (Latin), from Old English 'fae' (Fee), which eventually, in Latin 'Fate' (fate) decreasing; known by Morgan le Fay in the Arthurian legend witch and half-sister of King Arthur, the first since the end of the 19th Century as a first name in use