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Faryal

#13,757 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Persian origin

Faryal has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #13,757 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Faryal, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Faryal: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Persian origin

Persian

What Faryal means

Faryal is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Faryal is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 150 girls were recorded with the name Faryal between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2017; its best national rank was #8,961 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,005 in 2020 to #13,757 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 Faryal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,757
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Faryal 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 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Faryal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Faryals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Faryal was born before 2014 — so the typical Faryal is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
150
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Faryal 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
+248
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2017 (12)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,961
2017

Spellings of Faryal

Faryal is not the most common spelling — Arya is, with 31.1% against Faryal's 0.16%.

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.

Faryal around the world

Where Faryal 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2024
    #6,172
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #818
    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.

Faryal by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,757
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 248
Best rank ever
#8,961
2017
Peak year
2017
12 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
150
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Faryal

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

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Sibling names for Faryal

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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