Fayth
Feminine · “Latin fides”
English had its own word for faith and gave it up. Troth was the native term, and the French import replaced it so completely that troth survives only in betrothed and in the phrase about plighting one.
How old is the name Fayth?
Fayth first appears in US birth records in 1952 — 73 years ago. The typical Fayth alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 2,000 people named Fayth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Fayth most popular?
Fayth peaked in 2004, reaching #1714 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 8,393 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
From fides to Fayth
The story of Fayth
When French vocabulary poured into English after 1066 it rarely replaced native words outright; usually the two survived side by side with the French one carrying the formal sense, which is why English has ask and enquire, kingly and royal, cow and beef. Faith is one of the cases where the replacement was almost total. Old English had treowth, the ancestor of both truth and troth, covering fidelity, a pledge and belief at once. The French feid took the belief sense, truth took the factual one, and troth was left with the marriage pledge and then with almost nothing: betrothed, and the archaic promise to plight one's troth. The name Faith belongs to the winner of that competition, adopted by Puritans as one of their virtue names and in continuous English use since.
Meaning
Latin fides, trust
Faith comes through Old French feid from Latin fides, trust or good faith. It was adopted as a personal name by English Puritans in the seventeenth century, alongside Hope and Charity. Fayth is a modern American respelling; its peak is 2004.
How the name formed
- fides
- feid
- Faith
- Fayth
Related forms: Faith · Fe · Foi
Pronouncing Fayth
FAYTH
One syllable. Faith and Fayth are homophones; the y and the i do identical work.
Nicknames for Fayth
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1952
- Most girls named
- 2004113 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1714reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- −30.8%9 in 2025, from 13
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Fayth in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Faith in English — spelling variant
- Fe in Spanish — same name
- Foi in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Missouri, Florida.
Fayths among us
people named Fayth are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Fayth
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Fayth
- #10107
- Fayth on the 2025 chart
- #265
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Fayth went to 9 girls in 2025, but Faith is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 1,221, which makes it the 265th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,842 places above the chart.
- Faith1,212
- Fayth9
About 1 girl in 1,316 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Fayth itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Indira test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Fayth's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Indira climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Indira's path sketches the road Fayth is walking now.
Fayth sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Fayth beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Fayth in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable and a clear, unambiguous sound.
- Fay works as a short form and as a name of its own.
- The word is universally understood.
- Faith is the standard spelling by an enormous margin.
- The y makes it look like a respelling, which it is.
- The 2004 peak dates this form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Fayths are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Fayth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Fayth?
- Fayth is one of 2 recorded spellings. Faith is the more common one — 1,212 births in 2025 against 9 for Fayth.
- How popular is the name Fayth in 2025?
- Fayth ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Fayth?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Fayth — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Fayth with classmates?
- Fayth will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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