Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Fei isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2025. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fei through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,670 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,670 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,505 as a first name in 2020; 1,284 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fei’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fei
- Han FeiChinese Legalist, 280–233 BCE279 BC–232 BC
- Cheng FeiChinese gymnast, born 1988
- Ge FeiChinese badminton playerborn 1975
- Chen FeiChinese judokaborn 1990
- Xu FeiChinese rowerborn 1994
- Wang FeiChinese footballer (born 1990)
- Wang FeiChinese beach volleyball playerborn 1981
- Li FeiChinese association football player (1983-)
- Cao FeiChinese sculptor and installation artist (born 1978)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.