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Fara

#13,753 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Fara has been given to 1,093 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #13,753 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Fara, 2025

1 in 553,000

Fara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fara: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fara means

Fara is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Fara is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,093 girls were recorded with the name Fara between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 1977; its best national rank was #1,735 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,001 in 2020 to #13,753 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,200 in 2015 to #13,753 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fara?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,753
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Faras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fara was born before 1976 — so the typical Fara is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,014
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Fara 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
−2,321
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+248
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,553
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.2%
Peak was 1977 (59)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,735
1976

Spellings of Fara

Fara is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 36.5% against Fara's <0.01%.

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 Fara is used

Across 1910–2025, Fara was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 448,028 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Fara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fara around the world

Where Fara 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
    2001–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • France
    1958–2025
    #7,178
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2016
    #3,204
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fara by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,753
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 248
Best rank ever
#1,735
1976
Peak year
1977
59 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,093
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Fara

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

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Sibling names for Fara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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