In 2025, 13 US boys were named Fareed, making it the 6,575th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,274 places from #5,301 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 18 boys named Fareed in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,305, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 36, in 2009. For comparison, it was #3,541 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fareed in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 728 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 225 babies named Fareed.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 158 US boys were named Fareed; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.