Faith Forename
967th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 943,206 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya
Faith Forename Definition:
A female name. first used as a christian name after the Reformation. Lyford 1655 calls it ‘a name commonly used’. In the 16th and 17th C it was given to boys as well as girls. Female triplets were often called Faith, Hope, and Charity. Not in Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols.
Read More About This ForenameFaith Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 100% | 443,001 | 1:105 | 4 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 244,989 | 1:725 | 110 |
| United States | 100% | 62,463 | 1:5,804 | 781 |
| Uganda | 99% | 46,101 | 1:888 | 154 |
| Malawi | 97% | 45,710 | 1:374 | 72 |
| South Africa | 98% | 17,266 | 1:3,158 | 592 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 15,751 | 1:979 | 169 |
| Tanzania | 99% | 11,594 | 1:4,553 | 762 |
| Philippines | 96% | 10,204 | 1:10,389 | 1,385 |
| Ghana | 81% | 7,079 | 1:3,812 | 530 |
| England | 100% | 5,726 | 1:9,711 | 775 |
| Zambia | - | 5,358 | 1:2,959 | 491 |
| Rwanda | - | 5,318 | 1:2,138 | 462 |
| Canada | 100% | 3,469 | 1:9,551 | 1,132 |
| Sudan | 75% | 2,975 | 1:12,708 | 1,431 |
| Liberia | 94% | 1,631 | 1:2,705 | 380 |
| Australia | - | 1,379 | 1:9,904 | 945 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 1,091 | 1:19,808 | 1,788 |
| Jamaica | - | 1,032 | 1:2,794 | 572 |
| Swaziland | - | 974 | 1:1,335 | 323 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 933 | 1:33,025 | 4,029 |
| Botswana | 94% | 802 | 1:2,724 | 488 |
| Papua New Guinea | 92% | 742 | 1:10,987 | 1,111 |
| New Zealand | - | 682 | 1:6,651 | 839 |
| Togo | - | 577 | 1:12,546 | 1,699 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 572 | 1:36,362 | 4,240 |
| Egypt | 92% | 564 | 1:162,945 | 6,404 |
| India | 100% | 362 | 1:3,356,016 | 147,100 |
| Poland | 100% | 330 | 1:115,234 | 2,410 |
| Singapore | 100% | 308 | 1:20,413 | 3,617 |
| Scotland | 100% | 293 | 1:18,261 | 933 |
| Spain | 100% | 281 | 1:165,587 | 3,707 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 270 | 1:26,489 | 2,613 |
| Wales | 100% | 265 | 1:11,677 | 867 |
| China | - | 253 | 1:5,399,430 | 55,898 |
| Ireland | 100% | 176 | 1:26,384 | 1,143 |
| Thailand | 100% | 162 | 1:432,505 | 21,532 |
| Guyana | 100% | 157 | 1:4,862 | 887 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 157 | 1:8,671 | 1,325 |
| Namibia | - | 148 | 1:16,244 | 1,597 |
| Netherlands | 81% | 128 | 1:132,048 | 6,034 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 126 | 1:241,666 | 13,182 |
| Morocco | - | 109 | 1:315,125 | 6,796 |
| Bahamas | - | 93 | 1:4,294 | 739 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 85 | 1:3,034,867 | 138,909 |
| Sweden | 97% | 75 | 1:131,439 | 5,235 |
| Germany | 77% | 63 | 1:1,534,569 | 10,004 |
| Bahrain | - | 59 | 1:22,859 | 3,234 |
| Belgium | 100% | 57 | 1:201,580 | 4,925 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 51 | 1:11,391 | 1,091 |
| Barbados | - | 50 | 1:5,796 | 822 |
| Qatar | 100% | 49 | 1:48,359 | 6,334 |
| Belize | 100% | 44 | 1:8,052 | 1,345 |
| Brazil | 100% | 42 | 1:5,100,861 | 79,262 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 40 | 1:1,532 | 357 |
| Hong Kong | - | 40 | 1:193,818 | 3,243 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Pakistan | 96% | 37 | 1:5,252,910 | 49,722 |
| Russia | 89% | 37 | 1:3,898,208 | 20,782 |
| Mozambique | - | 36 | 1:756,760 | 1,518 |
| Denmark | - | 34 | 1:166,162 | 3,974 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 29 | 1:3,427 | 684 |
| Switzerland | 97% | 29 | 1:283,224 | 5,698 |
| Guam | - | 28 | 1:5,737 | 966 |
| Portugal | - | 28 | 1:371,817 | 6,212 |
| Seychelles | - | 26 | 1:3,564 | 725 |
| Turkey | - | 26 | 1:2,992,373 | 17,480 |
| Grenada | 100% | 24 | 1:4,505 | 764 |
| Norway | 100% | 24 | 1:213,847 | 5,267 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 24 | 1:990,403 | 38,270 |
| Japan | - | 23 | 1:5,564,611 | 28,571 |
| Malta | - | 23 | 1:18,668 | 1,434 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 21 | 1:3,515,600 | 73,131 |
| Italy | 94% | 21 | 1:2,907,719 | 17,790 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 19 | 1:2,887 | 601 |
| France | 100% | 18 | 1:3,692,797 | 17,000 |
| Mexico | 79% | 18 | 1:6,896,913 | 24,317 |
| American Samoa | - | 17 | 1:3,285 | 601 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 17 | 1:6,456 | 983 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 16 | 1:115,197 | 1,540 |
| Benin | 100% | 16 | 1:660,990 | 19,671 |
| Senegal | 100% | 15 | 1:972,090 | 9,181 |
| Jersey | - | 13 | 1:7,691 | 755 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 13 | 1:8,583 | 1,271 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 13 | 1:2,323,223 | 39,208 |
| Bermuda | - | 11 | 1:5,893 | 898 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 11 | 1:2,841 | 595 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 11 | 1:1,670,861 | 39,584 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Finland | 91% | 9 | 1:609,243 | 6,562 |
| Gibraltar | - | 9 | 1:3,793 | 625 |
| Saint Lucia | 80% | 9 | 1:19,757 | 2,072 |
| South Korea | - | 9 | 1:616,047 | 14,026 |
| Congo | 50% | 8 | 1:626,151 | 12,913 |
| Colombia | 100% | 7 | 1:6,825,561 | 33,843 |
| Honduras | - | 7 | 1:1,259,638 | 12,726 |
| Lesotho | 80% | 6 | 1:340,000 | 19,758 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 6 | 1:8,538 | 1,253 |
| Oman | - | 6 | 1:684,778 | 5,486 |
| Cyprus | - | 5 | 1:174,215 | 3,223 |
| Greece | - | 5 | 1:2,186,910 | 11,382 |
| Lebanon | - | 5 | 1:1,125,514 | 9,179 |
| Tunisia | - | 5 | 1:135,380 | 6,628 |
| Algeria | - | 4 | 1:9,544,180 | 14,095 |
| Austria | 100% | 4 | 1:2,128,550 | 10,134 |
| Chile | 100% | 4 | 1:4,401,802 | 21,957 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 4 | 1:2,607,818 | 19,206 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Gabon | 100% | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Gambia | - | 4 | 1:481,649 | 818 |
| Georgia | - | 4 | 1:934,616 | 13,351 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| Palau | - | 4 | 1:5,428 | 88 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Ukraine | - | 4 | 1:11,374,977 | 14,813 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 4 | 1:23,155,778 | 5,302 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 3 | 1:3,214,315 | 27,427 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 3 | 1:1,589,316 | 14,648 |
| Iran | - | 3 | 1:26,165,623 | 45,792 |
| Peru | 67% | 3 | 1:10,597,151 | 58,549 |
| Albania | - | 2 | 1:1,523,285 | 33,816 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Czechia | 100% | 2 | 1:5,328,081 | 8,108 |
| Hungary | 82% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Macau | - | 2 | 1:304,104 | 1,640 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Nicaragua | - | 2 | 1:3,009,168 | 24,322 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 2 | 1:2,914 | 288 |
| Afghanistan | - | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| Argentina | 100% | 1 | 1:42,773,243 | 43,333 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Chad | 100% | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Croatia | - | 1 | 1:4,217,076 | 20,943 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Ecuador | - | 1 | 1:17,726,919 | 31,775 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Israel | 100% | 1 | 1:8,402,918 | 45,019 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Panama | - | 1 | 1:3,906,557 | 40,800 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Faïth (1) are calculated separately.
Faith (18,761) may also be a surname.
Faith Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. first used as a christian name after the Reformation. Lyford 1655 calls it ‘a name commonly used’. In the 16th and 17th C it was given to boys as well as girls. Female triplets were often called Faith, Hope, and Charity. Not in Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols. 1863. Revised ed. 1884.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
(See also Charity and Hope.) This Scriptural-virtue f. name appealed to the Puritans, survives in rural districts, and is still fairly common among Nonconformists. ‘One of St. Sophia’s daughters was thus called, and, like her sisters Hope and Charity, she laid down her life for her faith’ (Swan) at the age of nine; and in 303, Faith, a French virgin, who was burned to death, set, in her martyrdom, so brave an example that a number of bystanders declared themselves Christians and were forthwith beheaded (Benedictines).
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A female name which explains itself. See Hope, Charity.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
A Teutonic name, meaning: Unwavering trust.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Faith Forename Popularity
Faith Demographics
Average Faith Salary in
United States
$42,745 USD
Per year
Rank:
213,564 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.0166132
Rank: 761 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
98.2%
Sample size: 32,039 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
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