Faith

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• Swahili:/faiθ/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Faith, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Hope
• Joy
• Grace
• Charity
• Chastity

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Faith is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Nigeria

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Fäith, Fãith

• Spanish given name107 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, Spain, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

  Also written Fe, Fé, Fay, Фе, Fee

• Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Finland, United Kingdom

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Fåíth

77 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Faith is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, probably for Faithfull; first attested William Feythe 1389 FrNorw

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, ME fe(i)th faithfulness, loyalty (OF feid, feit, from L fides). Vars.: Faithful(l) (from the adj.). The earliest known bearer of the surname Faithful(l) is a certain William Feythful,_/iril recorded at Chichester in 1492, and in 1500I 01 described as a burgess of the town. The wills of Hugo Faythful and Margaret Faythfule were registered in Hants in 1548.

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

• In English, A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Fede

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• English: from the abstract noun denoting the quality of believing and trusting in God. The name began to be used in the 16th century, and was very popular among the Puritans of the 17th.

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Alberta Watsonb. 1955CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress (1955–2015)
• Faith Evansb. 1973USAmerican singer (born 1973)
• Faith Kipyegonb. 1994KEKenyan middle- and long-distance runner

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

85 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 51 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Faith mean, and where does it come from?

from a medieval nickname for a loyal or trustworthy person Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

Is Faith a male or female name?

Faith is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Spain (INE) and Finland (DVV), among others.

What are other forms of the name Faith?

In the etymology graph, Вера, Faythe and Fayth are forms of the same name in other languages; Faye, Fay and Fae are recorded short or pet forms.

Which countries have the most people named Faith?

Mondonomo estimates about 481 thousand people named Faith in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faith. After it come Nigeria, United States, South Africa and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Faith?

In the United States, the national register counted 119,725 people named Faith in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.

How common is Faith compared with other names?

In Nigeria, Faith is the 152nd most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.

How do you pronounce Faith?

In Swahili /faiθ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.