Meaning not yet researched.
Faron: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #631 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #631 in 1956; #9,170 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Faron in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,170 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #631.
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Faron: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #631 in 1956 · most boys in one year: 145 (1956).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Faron, making it the 9,170th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,757 places from #7,413 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 11 boys named Faron in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #631, reached in 1956. That year also had the most boys given the name: 145. For comparison, it was #6,448 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Faron in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 12 babies. In all, 2,472 US babies have been given the name, 2.1% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 717 babies named Faron.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 110 US boys were named Faron; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Farren, Farron and Faryn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Farren (1,053), Farron (721), Faryn (448), Faren (273), Farryn (271), Farrin (138), Farin (114), Farran (74), Faeryn (70), Faran (30), Fahren (28), Fairen (20), and more.
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 Faron 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.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,170 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,413 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,892 |
| 2022 | — | — | 11 | #7,418 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,437 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,696 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,144 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,285 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #4,989 |
| 2016 | — | — | 9 | #8,360 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,448 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #9,042 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #9,999 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,377 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,287 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,231 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #5,895 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,576 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,114 |
| 2006 | — | — | 14 | #5,880 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,517 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,150 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #9,983 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,696 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,778 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,123 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,773 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,591 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,779 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,304 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,129 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,797 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,121 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,362 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,857 | 15 | #3,877 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,566 | 13 | #4,249 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,274 | 19 | #3,131 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,648 | 23 | #2,542 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,385 | 18 | #2,875 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,876 | 24 | #2,316 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,378 |
| 1984 | — | — | 21 | #2,388 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,607 |
| 1982 | — | — | 28 | #1,947 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,285 |
| 1980 | — | — | 32 | #1,777 |
| 1979 | — | — | 40 | #1,494 |
| 1978 | — | — | 33 | #1,668 |
| 1977 | — | — | 37 | #1,522 |
| 1976 | — | — | 31 | #1,685 |
| 1975 | — | — | 33 | #1,567 |
| 1974 | — | — | 35 | #1,482 |
| 1973 | — | — | 51 | #1,154 |
| 1972 | — | — | 48 | #1,182 |
| 1971 | — | — | 40 | #1,337 |
| 1970 | — | — | 58 | #1,072 |
| 1969 | — | — | 56 | #1,031 |
| 1968 | — | — | 46 | #1,105 |
| 1967 | — | — | 72 | #844 |
| 1966 | — | — | 73 | #850 |
| 1965 | — | — | 67 | #903 |
| 1964 | — | — | 67 | #932 |
| 1963 | — | — | 72 | #883 |
| 1962 | — | — | 80 | #846 |
| 1961 | — | — | 107 | #744 |
| 1960 | — | — | 77 | #868 |
| 1959 | — | — | 76 | #881 |
| 1958 | — | — | 75 | #874 |
| 1957 | — | — | 107 | #723 |
| 1956 | — | — | 145 | #631 |
| 1955 | — | — | 118 | #672 |
| 1954 | — | — | 82 | #797 |
| 1953 | — | — | 54 | #982 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,291 |
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).