Fareedah — girls' name
131 babies named Fareedah in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
63% of everyone ever named Fareedah was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Fareedah in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Fareedah
The Social Security Administration has registered 131 babies named Fareedah between 1977 and 2020, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fareedah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Fareedah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 82 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Fareedah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Fareedah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Fareedah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 131 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Fareedah at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Fareedah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1977
- Peak year (2016)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 44 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
131 total births across 44 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 13 births in a single year.
Fareedah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 82 births that decade — 63% of Fareedah's all-time total
Fareedah decade highlights
- Peak decade 82 births
- Runner-up 23 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Fareedah's strongest decade
82 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 63% of all-time use.
Fareedah by state
Where Fareedah concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 18 | 13.7% |
18 of 131 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 13.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 13.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.