Faith

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Pace in IT Italy, DE Germany, BE Belgium and 4 more.

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

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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 name11K records spelled Faith4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Nigeria

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Fãith, Fäith

• Spanish given name2.2K records spelled Faith99 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, Spain, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

  Also written Fe, Fé, Фе, Fee, Fè

• Finnish given name1.3K records spelled Faith3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Nigeria, 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.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Faith Brookb. 1922GBBritish actress (1922-2012)
• Faith Hubleyb. 1924USAmerican animator (1924-2001)
• Faith Ringgoldb. 1930USAmerican artist and author (1930–2024)
• Alberta Watsonb. 1955CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress (1955–2015)
• Faith Princeb. 1957USAmerican actress
• Faith Fordb. 1964USAmerican actress (born 1964)
• Faith Hillb. 1967USAmerican country singer (born 1967)
• Faith Evansb. 1973USAmerican singer (born 1973)
• Faith Kipyegonb. 1994KEKenyan middle- and long-distance runner
• Griffb. 2001GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 666 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Faith?

We estimate roughly 120 thousand people bear Faith (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Faith have the most bearers?

We estimate about 119 thousand people bear Faith in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled faith.

How common is Faith compared with other names?

In the United States, Faith is the 688th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Faith a male or female name?

Faith is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Faith mean?

Recorded meaning: from a medieval nickname for a loyal or trustworthy person