Entry № 3222 · English origin

Faith Faith — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FAYTH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Faith, trust, belief"
Syllables
1
First recorded
17th c. (English Puritan)

A name that means "faith, trust, belief".

Faith comes from the Old French feid, from the Latin fides, meaning "trust" or "belief." It became a Puritan virtue name in 17th-century England, given alongside Hope and Charity (the three theological virtues of 1 Corinthians 13).

Faith entered the U.S. top 1000 in 1880 and has remained continuously. Today it sits in the U.S. top 200 — direct, faithful, with no equivocation.

Faith. The first of the three theological virtues.

The name in its native script.

Faith
Transliteration
Faith
Pronunciation
/ feɪθ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Faith stands.

Faith does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Faiths before her.

Real people
Faith Hill
American country singer.
born 1967
Faith Evans
American singer.
born 1973
In fiction
Faith
Character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
WB/UPN, 1997–2003

Names connected to Faith.

The number behind Faith.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Faith reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.