Fares
Fares was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,689 among boys’ names; 1,063 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Fares and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fares by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fares?
#2,689 among boys’ names, 2025
Fares rose from #2,821 in 2015 to #2,689 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 28.1 per million.
51 babies in 2012, the peak
Fares peaked in 2012, when 51 boys were given it, #2,459 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,689 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,842 | 26.1 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,855 | 25.7 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,838 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,036 | 22.9 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,897 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 42 | #2,909 | 23.4 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,911 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,909 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,945 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,821 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,520 | 25.5 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,727 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,459 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,262 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,035 | 19.8 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,503 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,673 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,149 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,217 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,336 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,467 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,009 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,080 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,750 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,114 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,206 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,479 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,541 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,449 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,250 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,211 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,049 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,990 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,653 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,458 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,183 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,582 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,675 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,734 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,292 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,882 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fares a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fares has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fares: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fares, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,063 Americans ever recorded as Fares. The median Fares alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,388 people named Fares (15 women and girls, 1,373 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 801 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 83 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 398 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 557 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,154 babies since 1880, Fares is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 215 babies (22%), the second 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 Fares
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 Fares and names like it
- Compare Fares and FarrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFares peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fares since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Fares.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fares alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.