Faith

Faith is an English vocabulary name derived from the Latin fides, meaning trust or belief, which entered Middle English through Old French foi. It came into use as a given name among English Puritans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, part of a broader practice of adopting virtue words as personal names. The name shares its Latin root with the related names Faye and Fay, as well as with the Spanish and Portuguese Fé, though these developed along separate paths.