Faith

Where Faith comes from

The dictionaries list Faith as a given name — a female given name from English — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1967
    Faith Hill born
    American country singer
  3. 1994
    Faith Kipyegon born
    Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner
  4. 2002
    Peak, #48
    5,527 babies named Faith — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #117.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Faith Hill · American country singer, born 1967
  • Faith Kipyegon · Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner, born 1994
  • Faith Evans · American singer, born 1973
  • Faith Ford · American actress, born 1964
  • Faith Ringgold · American artist and author, 1930–2024

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.