Farren

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 69.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1986 · 77 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
731
since 1983

Farren over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983peak #1,562, 1986peak #1,963, 1966girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,1079#9,7147
2024#8,94611#8,3129
2023#7,64014#12,2395
2022#9,68010#12,3305
2021#5,39823#10,7996
2020#7,55914#9,5547
2019#7,34215#12,1455
2018#8,14613#9,6707
2017#8,29913#9,6967
2016#5,62223
2015#8,00814#12,0865
2014#8,05314#12,1085
2013#6,46219
2012#8,20814
2011#6,85518#8,0799
2010#7,21717
2009#9,97511
2008#10,80710
2007#13,9247#9,7887
2006#9,90111
2005#9,45211#8,2998
2004#9,26411
2003#11,3258
2002#11,1088#10,6675
2001#9,35110#10,5565
2000#9,16310
1999#14,4115
1998#10,1228
1997#5,62617
1996#8,8129
1995#7,51411#8,8685
1994#5,44517
1993#8,7199
1992#4,68621#5,6609
1991#6,25314
1990#3,52330
1989#3,25332
1988#2,48943
1987#1,63075#4,9688
1986#1,56277#3,88211
1985#4,86015
1984#3,10714
1983#6,21210#6,2385
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1979#5,3556
1978#5,0596
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1974#4,6346
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1971#4,9075
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1969#3,3148
1968#4,1365
1967#2,47011
1966#1,96316
1965#2,61710
1964#4,0395
1963#2,67310
1962#2,8489
1961#2,9009
1960#2,31513
1959#3,2907
1958#2,50611
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1955#2,55810
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First appearance
1983

The first year at least five girls were named Farren! It came in at #6,212, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Farren
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,161 spots since 2024 (#8,946#10,107)
  • 2,548 spots since 2020 (#7,559#10,107)
  • 2,099 spots since 2015 (#8,008#10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 1986 at #1,562 (77 births)
  • Births halved by 1989, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 22,280
  • Highest: 1 in 22,280 girls born in 1986 were named Farren (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 34.5% of all girls named Farren (252) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1985
  • Mostly boys until 1984, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s252#1,562 (1986)#3,334
1990s141#3,523 (1990)#7,511
2000s97#9,163 (2000)#10,427
2010s160#5,622 (2016)#7,421
2020s81#5,398 (2021)#8,222

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.

Farren in 1983

girls
#6,212
10 births · 1 in 167,061 girls
boys
#6,238
5 births · 1 in 358,513 boys

Top girls' names in 1983

  1. #1Jennifer54,353
  2. #2Jessica45,283
  3. #3Amanda33,749
  4. #4Ashley33,289
  5. #5Sarah27,228
  6. #6Melissa23,475
  7. #7Nicole22,400
  8. #8Stephanie22,329
  9. #9Heather20,747
  10. #10Elizabeth19,842
  11. #6,212Farren10

Top boys' names in 1983

  1. #1Michael68,004
  2. #2Christopher59,324
  3. #3Matthew50,209
  4. #4David39,201
  5. #5Joshua36,687
  6. #6James36,342
  7. #7Jason35,113
  8. #8Daniel34,748
  9. #9John33,154
  10. #10Robert32,745
  11. #6,238Farren5
More about 1983

girls

1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 167,061 of them was named Farren, which outranked 48.6% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Farren
  1. #5,824Zahava11
  2. #5,824Zeina11
  3. #5,824Zeinab11
  4. #6,212Farren10
  5. #6,212Abbra10
  6. #6,212Adilah10
  7. #6,212Adonica10
  8. #6,705Aarin9
  9. #6,705Abbygail9
  10. #6,705Abel9

Tied with 492 names at #6,212; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. 6,772Ciji#7,469#697
  2. 6,751Kirby#7,469#718
  3. 2,656Dwan#3,530#874
  4. 1,888Mallory#2,220#332
  5. 987Marquita#1,099#112
Fallers
  1. 656Syreeta#717#1,373
  2. 572Jenilee#817#1,389
  3. 538Tenika#947#1,485
  4. 396Toccara#541#937
  5. 333Venus#950#1,283

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 358,513 of them was named Farren, which outranked 15.1% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Farren
  1. #5,484Zeric6
  2. #5,484Zubair6
  3. #5,484Zuriel6
  4. #6,238Farren5
  5. #6,238Abby5
  6. #6,238Abdallah5
  7. #6,238Abhay5

Tied with 1,106 names at #6,238; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. 2,260Remington#3,108#848
  2. 2,159Trumaine#3,108#949
  3. 1,157Akeem#1,774#617
  4. 738Jacoby#1,654#916
  5. 655Deven#1,622#967
Fallers
  1. 284Marcello#969#1,253
  2. 275Schuyler#845#1,120
  3. 273Jessy#917#1,190
  4. 258Kennith#981#1,239
  5. 220Jarrad#933#1,153

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1983