Faith ranks #453 with 270 entries, registered female. The name is a direct English virtue-name borrowing, sitting alongside Hope, Grace, and Charity in the Puritan-derived American naming tradition. Modern adoption has secularized the register, but the name retains a serious, considered quality.
The virtue-name tradition
Faith belongs to one of the oldest English-language naming patterns — the Puritan habit (17th century onward) of giving daughters virtue names as both spiritual aspiration and identity statement. The pattern moved from religious obligation into aesthetic choice over the centuries, and today's owners pick Faith because the sound and meaning carry weight, not because of doctrinal commitment.
The pop-culture and rescue layers
Two cultural threads sustain Faith's pet-naming use. Faith Hill (country singer, breakout 1995) gave the name a country-music register. The 2002 dog Faith — a two-legged Chow mix who walked upright and became internet-famous — created a meaningful association with rescue stories and disabled pets. Many shelters give the name to dogs with rough histories, which has reinforced the rescue-narrative cluster.
Breed lean and sound fit
One syllable (FAYTH), front-loaded, with a soft fricative finish. The name lands disproportionately on rescues and shelter-adopted dogs of all breeds, which is unusual on a name this far down the chart. There is also a meaningful cluster of Labradors and Goldens wearing the name. The human Faith page shows steady SSA presence with the female trajectory holding.