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Farhan

#2,062 in 2025Boys' name

Happy, cheerful

Farhan has been given to 1,824 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #2,062 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Farhan, 2025

1 in 46,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Farhan: meaning, origin, and history

Happy, cheerful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Farhan means

Farhan means “happy, cheerful”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,824 boys were recorded with the name Farhan between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 72 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,062 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,422 in 2020 to #2,062 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,441 in 2015 to #2,062 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.

How common is Farhan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,000
72 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,062
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Farhan 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Farhan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Farhans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Farhan was born before 2010 — so the typical Farhan is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,824
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (552).

Is Farhan 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
+78
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+360
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+379
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (72)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,062
2025

Spellings of Farhan

Farhan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 78.7% against Farhan's 0.24%.

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 Farhan is used

Across 1910–2025, Farhan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 86,217 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Farhan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Farhan around the world

Where Farhan 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
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2014
    #715
    in 2014
  • France
    1993–2025
    #2,022
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #949
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Farhan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,062
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 360
Best rank ever
#2,062
2025
Peak year
2025
72 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,824
Count in 2025
72

Names similar to Farhan

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

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Sibling names for Farhan

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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