Faris
Faris was given to 150 boys in 2025, #1,299 among boys’ names; 3,245 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,000 Americans named Faris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Faris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Faris?
#1,299 among boys’ names, 2025
Faris rose from #1,446 in 2015 to #1,299 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 61.0 to 87.8 per million.
150 babies in 2025, the peak
Faris peaked in 2025, when 150 boys were given it, #1,299 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 126 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 150 | #1,299 | 87.8 |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,440 | 73.1 |
| 2023 | 95 | #1,737 | 55.5 |
| 2022 | 118 | #1,526 | 67.6 |
| 2021 | 99 | #1,670 | 56.6 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,476 | 67.2 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,567 | 59.6 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,541 | 60.6 |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,343 | 71.9 |
| 2016 | 92 | #1,699 | 48.5 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,446 | 61.0 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,367 | 65.1 |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,550 | 53.9 |
| 2012 | 97 | #1,603 | 51.1 |
| 2011 | 96 | #1,601 | 50.5 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,431 | 60.5 |
| 2009 | 85 | #1,776 | 42.9 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,526 | 52.0 |
| 2007 | 97 | #1,609 | 46.7 |
| 2006 | 70 | #1,923 | 34.1 |
| 2005 | 75 | #1,757 | 37.6 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,763 | 35.8 |
| 2003 | 66 | #1,801 | 33.4 |
| 2002 | 63 | #1,821 | 32.4 |
| 2001 | 54 | #1,985 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,584 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,176 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,020 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,968 | 24.4 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,617 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,863 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,875 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,730 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,497 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,869 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,889 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,501 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,254 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,239 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,954 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,877 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,333 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,700 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,167 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,479 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,634 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,894 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,293 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,688 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,013 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,160 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,359 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,404 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,322 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,131 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,766 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,124 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,041 | 2.4 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,940 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,851 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,292 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,703 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,746 | 3.6 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,235 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,970 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,007 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,284 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,843 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,815 | 7.7 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,940 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,936 | 7.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,344 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,176 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,578 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,221 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,890 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,711 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,444 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,877 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,060 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,041 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,566 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,481 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,695 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,097 | 15.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Faris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Faris has been given almost only to boys: 20 girls in 86 years of records.
Girls and boys named Faris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Faris, and how old are they?
3,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,245 Americans ever recorded as Faris. The median Faris alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,997 people named Faris (109 women and girls, 2,888 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 26 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 64 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 261 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,480 |
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).
Where are babies named Faris born?
The states with the most babies named Faris are Texas, California and New York, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,022 | 0.9× |
| California | 18 | #1,128 | 0.9× |
| New York | 18 | #781 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 12 | #598 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 9 | #890 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #960 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,161 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,298 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,334 | 0.3× |
Where Faris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Faris is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1915 it was given 1.6 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 boys’ 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 Faris 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,935 babies since 1880, Faris is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 150 of their 215 babies (70%), the 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 Faris
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 Faris and names like it
- Compare Faris and FarrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFaris peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Faris since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Faris.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Faris alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.