Farah
#1,348 for girls in 2025, 164 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #8,840
Given to girls 98.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 173 births
- Debut · girls
- 19 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,278since 1960
Farah over time
Rank among girls' names. Farah has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,348 | 164 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,363 | 167 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,310 | 173 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,431 | 157 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,379 | 159 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,422 | 153 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,724 | 120 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,288 | 177 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,534 | 143 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #1,465 | 157 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,372 | 172 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,471 | 152 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #1,391 | 166 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,322 | 178 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #1,392 | 164 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,489 | 151 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #1,710 | 129 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #1,620 | 140 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,804 | 118 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #1,627 | 130 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #1,767 | 111 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,643 | 118 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #1,509 | 129 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #1,468 | 130 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,887 | 92 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,923 | 88 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #1,596 | 105 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #1,801 | 86 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #1,784 | 84 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,752 | 85 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,837 | 77 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,905 | 74 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,538 | 101 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,965 | 70 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,669 | 89 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,617 | 92 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,350 | 114 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #1,477 | 92 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #1,424 | 92 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,562 | 77 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,562 | 77 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,397 | 83 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,770 | 60 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,608 | 72 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,515 | 79 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,605 | 72 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,753 | 62 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,614 | 66 | — | |
| 1977 | #854 | 172 | — | |
| 1976 | #803 | 173 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,365 | 78 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,848 | 47 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,223 | 35 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,135 | 36 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,266 | 20 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,350 | 30 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,969 | 19 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,820 | 19 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Farah! It came in at #2,820, and was given to 19 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Farah
- 15 spots since 2024 (#1,363 → #1,348)
- 74 spots since 2020 (#1,422 → #1,348)
- 24 spots since 2015 (#1,372 → #1,348)
- Biggest jump: 562 spots in 1976 (#1,365 → #803)
- Biggest drop: 760 spots in 1978 (#854 → #1,614)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1976 at #803 (173 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1976–1977
- Highest: 1 in 8,469 girls born in 1976 were named Farah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,800 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 25.2% of all girls named Farah (1,580) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 149 | #2,350 (1969) | #3,603 |
| 1970s | 710 | #803 (1976) | #1,897 |
| 1980s | 818 | #1,350 (1989) | #1,527 |
| 1990s | 863 | #1,538 (1993) | #1,746 |
| 2000s | 1,185 | #1,468 (2002) | #1,696 |
| 2010s | 1,580 | #1,288 (2018) | #1,445 |
| 2020s | 973 | #1,310 (2023) | #1,376 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Farah in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 19,357 of them was named Farah, which outranked 89.4% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,465Rayna93
- #1,465Shanay93
- #1,465Vera93
- #1,477Farah92
- #1,477Adria92
- #1,477Erinn92
- #1,477Jenee92
- #1,491Aleah91
- #1,491Annabel91
- #1,491Blake91
Tied with 13 names at #1,477; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 382,857 of them was named Farah, which outranked 14.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,225 names at #7,270; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.