Meaning not yet researched.
Farrah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 168 in 2025. Its best rank was #177 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #177 in 1977; #1,328 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Farrah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,328 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #177.
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Farrah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 168 girls in 2025. Peak: #177 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 1,515 (1977).
In 2025, 168 US girls were named Farrah, making it the 1,328th most common girls’ name of the year, down 181 places from #1,147 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 211 girls named Farrah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #177, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,515. For comparison, it was #785 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Farrah in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 12,163 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,799 babies named Farrah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,143 US girls were named Farrah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 282. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,567 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Farrah ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #618 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Farah (6,376 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fara, Pharrah and Farra 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fara (1,093), Pharrah (202), Farra (118), Faira (6), Farai (6), Fairah (6), Faora (5), Fayra (5).
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 Farrah 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 8 | #618 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #779 | #692 |
| Indiana | 6 | #957 | #425 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,064 | #599 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,114 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,115 | #841 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,138 | #843 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,181 | #928 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,194 | #448 |
| California | 16 | #1,436 | #878 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,736 | #838 |
| New York | 5 | #2,202 | #867 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 168 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 2024 | 211 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 2023 | 168 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 2022 | 199 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 2021 | 197 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2020 | 189 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2019 | 219 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 2018 | 255 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 2017 | 255 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2016 | 282 | #960 | — | — |
| 2015 | 360 | #785 | — | — |
| 2014 | 369 | #757 | — | — |
| 2013 | 456 | #614 | — | — |
| 2012 | 535 | #554 | — | — |
| 2011 | 538 | #541 | — | — |
| 2010 | 530 | #551 | — | — |
| 2009 | 240 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 2008 | 154 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2007 | 163 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 2006 | 185 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 2005 | 142 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1997 | 132 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1996 | 122 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1995 | 117 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1994 | 114 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1993 | 129 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1992 | 109 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1991 | 119 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1990 | 119 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1989 | 143 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1988 | 183 | #925 | — | — |
| 1987 | 181 | #917 | — | — |
| 1986 | 121 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1985 | 123 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1984 | 132 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1983 | 122 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1982 | 141 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1981 | 135 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1980 | 170 | #894 | 7 | #5,116 |
| 1979 | 200 | #792 | — | — |
| 1978 | 332 | #539 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,515 | #177 | — | — |
| 1976 | 836 | #276 | — | — |
| 1975 | 81 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,291 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,571 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,478 | — | — |
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).