Fara
Fara was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,753 among girls’ names; 1,093 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fara mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Fara is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fara?
#13,753 among girls’ names, 2025
Fara fell from #12,200 in 2015 to #13,753 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
59 babies in 1977, the peak
Fara peaked in 1977, when 59 girls were given it, #1,744 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,753 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,432 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,559 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,099 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,624 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,001 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,759 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,462 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,445 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,126 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,200 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,423 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,732 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,677 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,658 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,879 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,165 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,982 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,395 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,127 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,457 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,744 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,846 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,946 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,753 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,761 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,955 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,212 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,262 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,929 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,279 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,107 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,629 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,003 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,918 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,685 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,692 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,967 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,451 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,769 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,559 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,198 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,047 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,625 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,521 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,125 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,744 | 38.5 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,735 | 37.5 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,474 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,701 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,435 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,604 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,834 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,144 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,669 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,214 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,120 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,444 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,457 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,755 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,096 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,845 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,208 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,070 | 15.3 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,308 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,282 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,070 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,395 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,395 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,209 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,346 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,254 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,026 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,581 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,987 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,182 | 3.2 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,036 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,218 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,239 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,607 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,662 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,219 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,843 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,126 | 5.8 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,014 | 6.0 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,826 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fara, and how old are they?
An estimated 953 Americans named Fara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 28 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,444 people named Fara (1,399 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 943 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Fara rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Fara?
Fara is a less common spelling of Farrah: SSA has recorded 1,093 Fara and 12,163 Farrah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,147 babies since 1880, Fara is the fourth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 374 babies (1.6%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fara and names like it
- Compare Fara and FarrahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sFara peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fara since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Fara.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Fara alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with FMost given first.