In 2025, 24 US girls were named Fajr, making it the 5,296th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6,140 places from #11,436 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 8 girls named Fajr in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,041, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 27. For comparison, it was #8,616 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fajr in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 301 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 127 babies named Fajr.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 159 US girls were named Fajr; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.