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Faren

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Faren has been given to 273 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1986, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Faren, 2015

1 in 617,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Faren: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Faren means

Faren is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Faren is used in Lun Bawang.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 273 girls were recorded with the name Faren between 1969 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1986; its best national rank was #1,477 in 1986.

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 Faren?

Faren had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Faren 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Faren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Farens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Faren was born before 1987 — so the typical Faren is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
70.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
273
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 70.3% of all recorded uses (192).

Is Faren 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (85)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,477
1986

Spellings of Faren

Faren is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 47.0% against Faren'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 Faren is used

Across 1910–2025, Faren was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 879,701 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Faren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Faren around the world

Where Faren 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.

  • France
    1990–1992
    #3,329
    in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Faren 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,477
1986
Peak year
1986
85 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
273
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Faren

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

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Sibling names for Faren

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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