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Faithe vs Faiza

American parents have registered 1,059 Faizas since 1880, against 710 Faithes. Faiza is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Faithe against Faiza, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Faithe Faiza

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 79 years in which either name was published, Faiza for 42 years and Faithe for 37 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Faithe Faiza
Total US births 7101,059
Most in one year 3043
Babies in 2025 under 535
Estimated living today 6501,000
Median age today 2716
Peak year 20012017
Best rank 4,107th girls3,552nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,067th
First recorded 19181973
Girls / boys 710 / 01,059 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Faithes alive today are over 27; half the Faizas are over 16. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Faithe Faiza
England and Wales 61,297

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Faithe and Faiza.