Meaning not yet researched.
Farah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 164 in 2025. Its best rank was #803 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #803 in 1976; #1,350 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Farah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,350 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #803.
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Farah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 164 girls in 2025. Peak: #803 in 1976 · most girls in one year: 178 (2012).
In 2025, 164 US girls were named Farah, making it the 1,350th most common girls’ name of the year, up 14 places from #1,364 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 167 girls named Farah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #803, reached in 1976. The most girls given the name in a single year was 178, in 2012. For comparison, it was #1,374 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Farah in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 19 babies. In all, 6,376 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,612 babies named Farah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,570 US girls were named Farah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 177. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,800 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Farah ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #467 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Farrah (12,163 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Pharah are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic, Dutch and Persian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Pharah (110).
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 Farah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 18 | #467 | #1,166 |
| New York | 18 | #874 | #828 |
| Illinois | 9 | #958 | #943 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #974 | #882 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,016 | #1,077 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,096 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,144 | #1,293 |
| California | 21 | #1,200 | #1,067 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,246 | #692 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,538 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,564 | #2,443 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 164 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 2024 | 167 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 2023 | 173 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 2022 | 157 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 2021 | 159 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 2020 | 153 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 2018 | 177 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,536 | 8 | #9,111 |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 2015 | 172 | #1,374 | 5 | #12,671 |
| 2014 | 152 | #1,474 | 9 | #8,355 |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 2012 | 178 | #1,324 | 5 | #12,863 |
| 2011 | 164 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 2010 | 151 | #1,492 | 5 | #12,878 |
| 2009 | 129 | #1,712 | 6 | #11,447 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,809 | 8 | #9,165 |
| 2006 | 130 | #1,632 | 7 | #9,898 |
| 2005 | 111 | #1,772 | 5 | #12,000 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,648 | 5 | #11,925 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,513 | 5 | #11,444 |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,927 | 5 | #10,944 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,602 | 5 | #10,440 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,805 | 8 | #7,059 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1992 | 70 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1989 | 114 | #1,351 | 7 | #6,445 |
| 1988 | 92 | #1,479 | 5 | #7,652 |
| 1987 | 92 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1984 | 83 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1977 | 172 | #855 | — | — |
| 1976 | 173 | #803 | — | — |
| 1975 | 78 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,145 | — | — |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,395 | — | — |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,455 | — | — |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,943 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,841 | — | — |
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).