Faline is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Falon, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Faline: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,895 in 1943.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,895 in 1943; #8,528 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Faline in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,528 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1943, at #4,895.
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Faline: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,895 in 1943 · most girls in one year: 12 (2025).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Faline, making it the 8,528th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,069 places from #12,597 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 7 girls named Faline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,895, reached in 1943. The most girls given the name in a single year was 12, in 2025. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Faline in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 5 babies. In all, 117 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 27 babies named Faline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19 US girls were named Faline; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Falon (2,066 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Faline in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).