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Fareeha

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Fariha

Fareeha has been given to 149 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Fareeha, 2024

1 in 669,000

Fareeha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fareeha: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Fariha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fareeha means

Fareeha is a alternate transcription of Fariha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fareeha is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fa.ˈriː.ħa/ for Fareeha.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fareeha → Fariha. The family’s meaning is “happy”, recorded in the naming reference for Fariha.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fariha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 149 girls were recorded with the name Fareeha between 1996 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2017; its best national rank was #10,093 in 1997.

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.

How common is Fareeha?

Fareeha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fareeha 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fareeha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fareehas were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
149
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (54).

Is Fareeha 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (9)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,093
1997

Spellings of Fareeha

Fareeha is not the most common spelling — Aretha is, with 46.1% against Fareeha's 1.2%.

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.

Fareeha around the world

Where Fareeha 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
    1998–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Fareeha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,093
1997
Peak year
2017
9 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
149
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fareeha

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

FarheenFarzanaFaryalFareedahFarishaFarrynFarhiyaFareedaFarhaFarhanaFarizaMaleehaFarihaSalehaFarzonaAleehaFartunFarrinFarishtaFarronFardowsaFarrenFarrellFarida

Sibling names for Fareeha

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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