Fayth
Fayth was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,362 among girls’ names; 2,055 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Fayth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fayth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fayth?
#10,362 among girls’ names, 2025
Fayth fell from #3,312 in 2015 to #10,362 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 27.4 to 5.6 per million.
113 babies in 2004, the peak
Fayth peaked in 2004, when 113 girls were given it, #1,718 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,362 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,111 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,496 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,078 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,882 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,801 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,106 | 31.0 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,526 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,874 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,775 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,312 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,500 | 40.3 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,735 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,362 | 44.9 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,223 | 48.3 |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,225 | 48.9 |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,156 | 50.6 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,492 | 40.2 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,465 | 39.5 |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,233 | 45.2 |
| 2005 | 93 | #2,019 | 50.3 |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,718 | 61.5 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,903 | 52.5 |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,033 | 47.3 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,872 | 51.6 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,057 | 44.1 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,539 | 31.6 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,127 | 38.5 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,048 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,657 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,438 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,426 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,751 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,251 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,343 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,068 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,032 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,908 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,556 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,912 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,934 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,052 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,390 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,420 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,881 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,878 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,294 | 7.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,522 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,129 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,705 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,477 | 3.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,826 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,398 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,005 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,832 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fayth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fayth has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fayth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fayth, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,055 Americans ever recorded as Fayth. The median Fayth alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,680 people named Fayth (1,678 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,922 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 499 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Fayth born?
The states with the most babies named Fayth are California, Texas and Ohio, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 160 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 155 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 51 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 34 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fayth with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Fayth?
Fayth is a less common spelling of Faith: SSA has recorded 2,055 Fayth and 148,142 Faith since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 150,197 babies since 1880, Fayth is the second most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,229 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fayth
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fayth and names like it
- Compare Fayth and FaithBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sFayth peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fayth since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Fayth.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fayth alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.