Back in high school we played a lot of D&D, and I watched a lot of Buffy The Vampireslayer. Since I had the hots for Eliza Dushku, I named my halfling rogue for our campaign at the time 'Faith'.

My internethandle at that age used to be "McDreck", based of the McDonalds franchise and roughly translating to "McDirt". People kept thinking I was in the music biz and into hiphop and R&B, which was quite insulting to me as a metalhead.

Therefore when I started playing Call of Duty in 2003 I adopted my longest standing D&D characters name as my own on the internet and named myself Faith. This caused a lot of confusion for people tho, as:

1. People assumed I was a girl;
2. People assumed I was religious;
3. People misread and assumed I was Turkish.

So, when someone muted me on a server (may have been IRC, or somewhere in a game) it showed up as [muted]Faith. I liked the sound of it, changed my name and stuck with it ever since.