# Faith (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/faith/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Fay |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 148,142 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 291 / 147,851 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14,496, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,733 | 70 |
| 2012 | 3,561 | 75 |
| 2013 | 3,419 | 89 |
| 2014 | 3,739 | 79 |
| 2015 | 3,348 | 90 |
| 2016 | 3,093 | 99 |
| 2017 | 2,640 | 117 |
| 2018 | 2,473 | 122 |
| 2019 | 2,276 | 124 |
| 2020 | 2,003 | 134 |
| 2021 | 1,748 | 165 |
| 2022 | 1,568 | 188 |
| 2023 | 1,274 | 237 |
| 2024 | 1,285 | 248 |
| 2025 | 1,212 | 254 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | 10,193 |
| 2010 | 9 | 8,344 |
| 2011 | 9 | 8,283 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,188 |
| 2014 | 10 | 7,734 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,005 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,826 |
| 2017 | 5 | 12,889 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,207 |
| 2019 | 5 | 12,756 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,654 |
| 2021 | 12 | 6,835 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,652 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,265 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9,169 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 914 | 63 |
| 2012 | 868 | 73 |
| 2013 | 735 | 74 |
| 2014 | 642 | 88 |
| 2015 | 549 | 104 |
| 2016 | 484 | 118 |
| 2017 | 394 | 135 |
| 2018 | 390 | 135 |
| 2019 | 343 | 148 |
| 2020 | 308 | 165 |
| 2021 | 290 | 175 |
| 2022 | 242 | 207 |
| 2023 | 190 | 239 |
| 2024 | 168 | 278 |
| 2025 | 162 | 281 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |

## People named Faith

- Faith Hill, American country singer (born 1967)
- Faith Evans, American singer (born 1973)
- Faith Ford, American actress (born 1964)
- Faith Ringgold, American artist and author (1930–2024)
- Faith Leech, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder
- Faith Domergue, American actress (1924–1999)
- Saint Faith, Gallo-Roman saint
- Faith Prince, American actress
- Faith Leon, American pornographic actress
- Faith Minton, actress and stuntwoman
- Faith Bacon, American burlesque dancer (1910–1956)
- Faith Brook, British actress (1922-2012)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.