Faith
Faith is ranked 249th among girls in 2024 (1,272 births). Its best rank was 48th, in 2002.
- Rank in 2024
- #249down 10 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,2720.08% of girls
- Peak year
- 20035,597 births
- Best rank
- #48in 2002
- Since 1880
- 146,585people given the name
The story in the numbers
146,585 girls have been named Faith in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 5,597 births — 0.31% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 79 → 249).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 33%. It has spent 143 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Faith | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 86 | |
| 1890s | 234 | |
| 1900s | 294 | |
| 1910s | 1,040 | |
| 1920s | 2,104 | |
| 1930s | 3,190 | |
| 1940s | 4,528 | |
| 1950s | 6,958 | |
| 1960s | 6,999 | |
| 1970s | 6,356 | |
| 1980s | 6,666 | |
| 1990s | 19,529 | |
| 2000s | 48,781 | |
| 2010s | 31,973 | |
| 2020s | 7,847 |
In 2003, its biggest year
Faith was the 50th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2003 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Hannah and Olivia. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Faith
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Calistapeak 1999
- Nadyapeak 2006
- Jacipeak 2005
- Lilipeak 2003
- Kiyapeak 2002
- Anjalipeak 2005
- Faythpeak 2004
- Callistapeak 1999
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.