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Furqan

Boys' name

Criterion between right and wrong

Furqan has been given to 128 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Furqan, 2023

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Furqan: meaning, origin, and history

Criterion between right and wrong

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Furqan means

Furqan means “criterion between right and wrong”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Furqan is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fur.ˈqaːn/ for Furqan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 128 boys were recorded with the name Furqan between 1984 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2011; its best national rank was #6,652 in 1984.

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 Furqan?

Furqan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 214,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Furqan 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 2023 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 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Furqan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Furqans were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
128
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Furqan 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (12)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,652
1984

Spellings of Furqan

Furqan is not the most common spelling — Urban is, with 23.3% against Furqan's 0.91%.

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.

Furqan around the world

Where Furqan 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #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.

Furqan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,652
1984
Peak year
2011
12 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
128
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Furqan

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

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Sibling names for Furqan

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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