| Meaning | bird |
| Origin | Yiddish |
| Gender | Girl |
| Popularity | Moderate |
| Length | 5 |
| Syllables | 2 |
| Syllabification | Fai-ga |
About Faiga
Distinctive and deeply rooted in tradition. Faiga carries cultural richness that connects your daughter to heritage and history. This name stands proudly apart from mainstream choices, offering something genuinely unique in contemporary naming landscapes. The sound pattern creates an interesting contrast—starting soft and ending with strength. Parents valuing cultural preservation while raising children in modern contexts will appreciate how Faiga honors the past while moving confidently into the future. The rarity of this name ensures your daughter will always be the only Faiga in her peer group, giving her a strong sense of individual identity from the start. There's a certain dignity to less common names, a suggestion that not everything needs to follow popular trends to have value. Faiga demonstrates that parents thought deeply about their choice, selecting a name with personal significance rather than following naming fashions. For families wanting to maintain cultural connections and give their daughter a name with deep roots and authentic meaning, Faiga represents a beautiful choice that honors tradition.
Nicknames for Faiga
| Fay |
| Iga |
| Fifi |
| Iggy |
| Faigy |
Famous People Named Faiga
| Faiga Ostrover | Holocaust survivor and author |
| Faiga Rubin | Yiddish theater actress |
| Faiga Basch | Yiddish poet and writer |
| Faiga Krakinowski | Jewish educator and activist |
| Faiga Moira Tsenter | Yiddish actress and singer |
| Faiga Kriger | Yiddish journalist and editor |
| Faiga Iziks | Yiddish singer |
| Faiga Rivke Korn | Yiddish writer and poet |
| Faiga Weisberg | Yiddish poet and playwright |
| Faiga Kruk | Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor |
| Faiga Levin | Yiddish author and educator |
| Faiga Kogosowski | Yiddish actress |
| Faiga Mankowitz | Yiddish playwright and actress |
| Faiga Weichselbaum | Yiddish poet and translator |
| Faiga Kichel | Yiddish actress |
| Faiga Chaimovich | Yiddish writer and translator |
| Faiga Koral | Yiddish actress and singer |
| Faiga Estrin | Yiddish writer and editor |
| Faiga Kogan | Yiddish poet and journalist |
| Faiga Lichtenstein | Yiddish writer and translator |
Characters Named Faiga
| Faiga Soroka | Character in Sholem Aleichem's stories |
| Faiga Abramowitz | Character in Michael Chabon's novel "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" |
| Faiga Kaminsky | Character in Chava Rosenfarb's novel "Bociany" |
| Faiga Shprintza | Character in Yiddish folklore |
| Faiga Fein | Character in Cynthia Ozick's short story "The Pagan Rabbi" |
| Faiga Heltzel | Character in Chaim Grade's novel "The Yeshiva" |
| Faiga Plonsky | Character in Rebecca Goldstein's novel "The Mind-Body Problem" |
| Faiga Itzikovna | Character in Bernard Malamud's short story "The Magic Barrel" |
| Faiga Rosenfeld | Character in Anzia Yezierska's novel "Children of Loneliness" |
| Faiga Pincushevsky | Character in Deborah Eisenberg's short story "The Littlest Ones" |
| Faiga Witzling | Character in Allegra Goodman's novel "Kaaterskill Falls" |
| Faiga Rabinowitz | Character in Pearl Abraham's novel "The Romance Reader" |
| Faiga Gurvis | Character in Dara Horn's novel "The World to Come" |
| Faiga Feldman | Character in Anne Roiphe's novel "Fruitful" |
| Faiga Steinmetz | Character in Ruth R. Wisse's novel "The Schlemiel as Modern Hero" |
| Faiga Greenberg | Character in Linda Grant's novel "When I Lived in Modern Times" |
| Faiga Rappaport | Character in Rachel Kadish's novel "The Weight of Ink" |
| Faiga Gluck | Character in Meir Shalev's novel "The Blue Mountain" |
| Faiga Gold | Character in Ayelet Waldman's novel "Daughter's Keeper" |