Faith

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

From the English vocabulary word faith [1] [2]

Related Names

Faith
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Fay

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Faith
Genitive: Faiths
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Faith
Genitive: Faithin
Partitive: Faithia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Faith
Genitive: Faiths
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Faith
Genitive: Faiths

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Faith (percentage of first or only given name: 100 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
149 325 143 316 6 9
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
148
n.a.
148 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
61
n.a.
60
n.a.
1
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[7]
3 11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
55
n.a.
55
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Faith.


References

  1. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/