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Farid

#2,774 in 2025Boys' name

Unique, precious

Farid has been given to 1,120 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #2,774 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Farid, 2025

1 in 72,100

Farid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Farid: meaning, origin, and history

Unique, precious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Farid means

Farid means “unique, precious”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,120 boys were recorded with the name Farid between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,394 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,598 in 2020 to #2,774 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,436 in 2015 to #2,774 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 Farid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 37,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,774
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Farid 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Farid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Farids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Farid was born before 2006 — so the typical Farid is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,120
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (261).

Is Farid 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
+518
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+824
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,662
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (46)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,394
1977

Spellings of Farid

Farid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 80.1% against Farid's 0.02%.

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 Farid is used

Across 1910–2025, Farid was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 254,694 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Farid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Farid around the world

Where Farid 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
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1947–2025
    #1,544
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1965–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Farid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,774
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 824
Best rank ever
#2,394
1977
Peak year
2025
46 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,120
Count in 2025
46

Names similar to Farid

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

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Sibling names for Farid

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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