Baby name

Faith

Girl

Origin of the name

Faith comes from the word faith, one of the Christian virtues.

Short-lived name

2003 was its best year: 5,597 births, or 1 baby in 679. Since then, the name has fallen 75%, to about 1,420 births a year. In 2025, it ranked No. 254. 33% of all babies named Faith since 1880 were born in the 2000s.

147,851births since 1880

2000sgeneration

No. 50rank at its peak, in 2003

Where babies named Faith are born

2003

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The darker the blue, the more common Faith is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Faith is most common in Hawaii (2.2 times), Nevada (1.9) and Alaska (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Fayth 2,055

Names from the same era

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