Fariha
Fariha was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,397 among girls’ names; 531 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fariha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fariha?
#6,397 among girls’ names, 2025
Fariha rose from #7,746 in 2015 to #6,397 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 11.2 per million.
25 babies in 1998, the peak
Fariha peaked in 1998, when 25 girls were given it, #4,404 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,397 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,735 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,371 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,518 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,165 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,323 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,865 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,373 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,980 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,063 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,746 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,158 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,207 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,596 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,346 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,588 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,780 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,667 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,843 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,486 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,626 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,881 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,136 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,979 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,879 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,912 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,289 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,404 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,261 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,923 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,681 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,425 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,668 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,769 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,820 | 4.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,771 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,260 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,502 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,925 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,783 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fariha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fariha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fariha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fariha, and how old are they?
An estimated 525 Americans named Fariha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 9 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,127 people named Fariha (1,123 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 431 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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).
Where are babies named Fariha born?
The states with the most babies named Fariha are New York, Texas and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 121 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Texas | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Fariha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fariha is most over-represented in New York: since 1983 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fariha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,749 babies since 1880, Fariha is the third most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 194 babies (9.3%), 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 Fariha
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 Fariha and names like it
- Compare Fariha and FarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sFariha peaked in 1998.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fariha since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Fariha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fariha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.