MEANING & HISTORY
What does Faith mean?
Faith is an English virtue name taken directly from the noun faith. Its word history comes through French from Latin terms associated with trust and fidelity.
Christian use gives it a strong religious association, though the ordinary noun can also mean trust more generally. The name’s literal source is the virtue word rather than an abbreviation of a longer personal name.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ˈfejt/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈfeɪ̯t̪]Standard-Tagalog
- /ˈpejt/with nativization
- [ˈpeɪ̯t̪]with nativization
Faith1 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Faith.
a female given name from English
CebuanoEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Faith, from faith.
a female given name from English
EnglishEtymology & source
A female given name from English.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Faith
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Faith Anne
Filipina singer, and television host
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Faith Cuneta, Faith Anne
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Faith in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Faith
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Edith♀Wealth and battle
- Keith♂From a Scottish place name, probably linked with woodland
- Fabian♂From Roman Fabianus, derived from Fabius
- Fabián♂From the Roman family name Fabius
- Faisal♂Arbiter or one who decides
- Fanny·Familiar form of Frances, Françoise, or Stéphanie
- Fatima♀One who weans or abstains, from the Arabic name
- Fátima♀Abstaining or weaning; from Arabic Fatima
What rhymes with Faith?
Matches share a dictionary-supplied rhyme key in the stated language. Check the recorded reading; another language or accent can change the rhyme.
Explore Faith further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q3740805 — Faith (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Faith Cuneta (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q3740805 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Faith Anne (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q3740805 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Faith (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Faith (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Faith (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Faith (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.