Faith Girl
How popular is Faith?
#254 girl name in 2025
1,212 baby girls were named Faith in the US in 2025, making it the 254th most popular girl name. Another 8 boys got the name (#8,906 for boys).
Faith popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #254 for girls (▼ 6 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,212 girls, 8 boys |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-64% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #90 in 2015, #134 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2003 (5,597 girls) |
| Highest rank | #48 in 2002 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.9% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Faith counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Faith family of names ranked #271 for girls in 2025 (#253 the year before), with 1,221 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Faith | 1,212 | 99% |
| Fayth | 9 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Faith is most popular
Babies named Faith per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 3.8 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- Delaware: 2.0 per 1,000 (23 girls)
- New Mexico: 1.9 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Arkansas: 1.8 per 1,000 (95 girls)
- Nevada: 1.7 per 1,000 (78 girls)
Faith by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 86 | #556 |
| 1890s | 234 | #497 |
| 1900s | 294 | #562 |
| 1910s | 1,040 | #529 |
| 1920s | 2,104 | #451 |
| 1930s | 3,190 | #316 |
| 1940s | 4,528 | #286 |
| 1950s | 6,958 | #304 |
| 1960s | 7,000 | #318 |
| 1970s | 6,356 | #276 |
| 1980s | 6,666 | #305 |
| 1990s | 19,529 | #76 |
| 2000s | 48,789 | #48 |
| 2010s | 31,987 | #70 |
| 2020s | 9,090 | #134 |
Girl names about as popular as Faith
Questions
- Is Faith a boy or girl name?
- Faith is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Faith were girls.
- How popular is the name Faith?
- 1,212 baby girls were named Faith in the US in 2025, making it the 254th most popular girl name. Another 8 boys got the name (#8,906 for boys).
- When was Faith most popular?
- Faith peaked in 2003, when 5,597 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #48 in 2002.
- How many people are named Faith?
- 148,142 babies have been named Faith in the US since 1880. We estimate about 136,852 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 23.
- Where is Faith most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Faith was most common in Hawaii, at 3.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.