Farhad
Farhad was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,622 among boys’ names; 273 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Farhad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Farhad mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Farhad is “a male given name from Persian.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Farhad?
#12,622 among boys’ names, 2025
Farhad fell from #9,002 in 2015 to #12,622 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 2.9 per million.
14 babies in 1990, the peak
Farhad peaked in 1990, when 14 boys were given it, #4,035 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,622 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,361 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,300 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,767 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,002 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,155 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,279 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,077 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,642 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,382 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #9,975 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,651 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,473 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,433 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,542 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,464 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,574 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,372 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,179 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,915 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,746 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,035 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,607 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,984 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,674 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,066 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,873 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,311 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,632 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,767 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,278 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,753 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,552 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,691 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,304 | 4.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,317 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,123 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Farhad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Farhad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Farhad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Farhad, and how old are they?
An estimated 261 Americans named Farhad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 25 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,460 people named Farhad (30 women and girls, 2,430 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.0 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, Farhad is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 64 babies (7.8%), again the third 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 Farhad
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 Farhad and names like it
- Compare Farhad and FaridBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sFarhad peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Farhad since 1910.
- Persian namesWiktionary’s origin for Farhad: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Farhad.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Farhad alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with FMost given first.