Farhana — girls' name
270 babies named Farhana in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1987. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Farhana was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Farhana in 1987 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Farhana
The Social Security Administration has registered 270 babies named Farhana between 1980 and 2022, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Farhana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Farhana performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 84 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Farhana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Farhana in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Farhana 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 270 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.
Farhana at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Farhana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1980
- Peak year (1987)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
270 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1987 with 12 births in a single year.
Farhana by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 84 births that decade — 31% of Farhana's all-time total
Farhana decade highlights
- Peak decade 84 births
- Runner-up 67 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Farhana's strongest decade
84 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Farhana by state
Where Farhana concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 47 | 17.4% |
47 of 270 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 17.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 17.4% 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, 1980–2022 (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.