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Fareed

#6,571 in 2025Boys' name

Alone, single, through فَرِيد

Fareed has been given to 728 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #6,571 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Fareed, 2025

1 in 255,000

Fareed over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fareed: meaning, origin, and history

Alone, single, through فَرِيد

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fareed means

Fareed belongs to the name family reached through Fareed → فَرِيد. Its meaning is “alone, single”.

Origin, language, and formation

Fareed is used in English.

Fareed comes through Arabic فَرِيد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include فَرِيد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 728 boys were recorded with the name Fareed between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,304 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,271 in 2020 to #6,571 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,540 in 2015 to #6,571 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 Fareed?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,571
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fareed 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fareed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fareeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fareed was born before 2007 — so the typical Fareed is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
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Choose a decade

2010s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (225).

Is Fareed 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
−1,274
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,700
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,031
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.1%
Peak was 2009 (36)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,304
1980

Spellings of Fareed

Fareed is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 54.0% against Fareed's 0.11%.

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 Fareed is used

Across 1910–2025, Fareed was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 713,088 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Maryland1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Fareed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fareed around the world

Where Fareed 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #698
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1969–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fareed by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,571
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,700
Best rank ever
#2,304
1980
Peak year
2009
36 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
728
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Fareed

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

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Sibling names for Fareed

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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