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Fahad

#2,459 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Fahad has been given to 1,612 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #2,459 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Fahad, 2025

1 in 60,300

Fahad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fahad: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Fahad means

Fahad is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Fahad is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,612 boys were recorded with the name Fahad between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,905 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,631 in 2020 to #2,459 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,073 in 2015 to #2,459 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Fahad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,459
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fahad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fahad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fahads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fahad was born before 2011 — so the typical Fahad is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,612
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (512).

Is Fahad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−396
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+172
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−386
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.3%
Peak was 2024 (73)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,905
1999

Spellings of Fahad

Fahad is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 76.3% against Fahad's 0.51%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fahad is used

Across 1910–2025, Fahad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 150,994 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fahad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fahad around the world

Where Fahad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #745
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2004
    #490
    in 2004
  • Ireland
    2004–2018
    #635
    in 2018
  • France
    1973–2025
    #1,653
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fahad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,459
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 172
Best rank ever
#1,905
1999
Peak year
2024
73 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,612
Count in 2025
55

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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