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Farhad

#12,622 in 2025Boys' name

Gained, earned

Farhad has been given to 273 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #12,622 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Farhad, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Farhad: meaning, origin, and history

Gained, earned

Persian

What Farhad means

Farhad means “gained, earned”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Farhad is used in Persian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fæɾ.ˈhɒːd/ for Farhad.

Origin, language, and formation

Farhad is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 273 boys were recorded with the name Farhad between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1990; its best national rank was #3,278 in 1981.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,002 in 2015 to #12,622 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 Farhad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,622
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Farhad 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Farhad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Farhads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Farhad was born before 1990 — so the typical Farhad is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
273
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Farhad 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
−1,261
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,620
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 1990 (14)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,278
1981

Spellings of Farhad

Farhad is not the most common spelling — Rashad is, with 53.5% against Farhad's 0.90%.

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 Farhad is used

Across 1910–2025, Farhad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 697,308 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Farhad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Farhad around the world

Where Farhad 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
    1996–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • France
    1984–2021
    #6,257
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2002
    #507
    in 2002
  • Canada
    1991–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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

Farhad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,622
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,278
1981
Peak year
1990
14 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
273
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Farhad

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

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Sibling names for Farhad

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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