Faith
Fewer than 90 people in Poland carry Faith, and the first newborns only turned up last year: two girls. The name carries the sense of faith and trust, the Slavic word wiara.
Faith Pronunciation
What Faith means
Where Faith comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Faith names an idea before it names a person. The idea is faith and trust, what Polish calls wiara. Its lineage is Slavic, from the custom of drawing given names straight from that conviction, where the same meaning produced the name Wiara.
English speakers made the word a name of their own. Among Puritan families in seventeenth-century England, plain virtues turned into first names. Faith appeared on parish registers beside Hope, Grace, and Prudence. Such a name recorded a belief rather than honouring a saint.
The meaning has stayed plain. Faith means faith. It has no diminutive to soften it and no variant to stand behind. On a Polish form at the urząd, the whole of it translates to one word, wiara.
How many people are named Faith
1 in 262138 women in Poland is named Faith. 88 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3747 among female names.
Faith's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1564 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Faith as a middle name
Faith is a first name for 88 women in Poland and a middle name for another 75, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 771st, between An (75) and Fryda (75).
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#769 Amira75
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#771 Faith75
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#772 Fryda75
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#773 Hortensja75