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Farzad

#8,463 in 2025Boys' name

Splendour, brilliance + child of

Farzad has been given to 163 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #8,463 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Farzad, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Farzad: meaning, origin, and history

Splendour, brilliance + child of

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Farzad means

Farzad means “splendour, brilliance + child of”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 163 boys were recorded with the name Farzad between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,479 in 1980.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,003 in 2015 to #8,463 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 Farzad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,463
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Farzad 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Farzad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Farzads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Farzad was born before 1999 — so the typical Farzad is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
163
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Farzad 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
−2,184
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+540
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.3%
Peak was 2024 (14)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,479
1980

Spellings of Farzad

Farzad is not the most common spelling — Jarad is, with 19.8% against Farzad's 1.5%.

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.

Farzad around the world

Where Farzad 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
    2002–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Farzad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,463
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,479
1980
Peak year
2024
14 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
163
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Farzad

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

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Sibling names for Farzad

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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