Farah

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Farah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 167 births. Its best rank was 803rd, in 1976.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1670.01% of girls
Peak year: 2012178 births
Best rank: #803in 1976
Since 1960: 6,114people given the name

Babies named Farah, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

6,114 girls have been named Farah in the United States since 1960, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 178 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2010s alone account for 26%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Farah
1960s	148
1970s	711
1980s	818
1990s	863
2000s	1,185
2010s	1,580
2020s	809

In 2012, its biggest year

Farah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2012 were Sophia, Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2012.

Names that rose and fell with Farah

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.