Fareed
Fareed was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,571 among boys’ names; 728 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fareed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fareed mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Fareed is “a transliteration of the Arabic male given name فَرِيد (farīd).”
Ultimately from Arabic فَرِيد (farīd).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fareed?
#6,571 among boys’ names, 2025
Fareed fell from #3,540 in 2015 to #6,571 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.2 to 7.6 per million.
36 babies in 2009, the peak
Fareed peaked in 2009, when 36 boys were given it, #3,179 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,571 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,297 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,031 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,942 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,431 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,271 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,377 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,856 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,807 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,380 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,540 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,813 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,520 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,792 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,922 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,029 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,179 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,169 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,503 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,602 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,283 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,375 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,480 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,740 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,593 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,465 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,411 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,240 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,809 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,380 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,627 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,584 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,802 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,979 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,745 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,775 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,350 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,539 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,677 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,225 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,118 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,011 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,698 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,166 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,662 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,304 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,893 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,708 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,693 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,342 | 7.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,945 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fareed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fareed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fareed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fareed, and how old are they?
An estimated 707 Americans named Fareed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,043 people named Fareed (1 woman or girl, 1,042 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 640 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,227 babies since 1880, Fareed is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 64 babies (20%), again the second most given.
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 Fareed
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 Fareed and names like it
- Compare Fareed and FaridBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sFareed peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fareed since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Fareed.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fareed alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.