Girls' name · since 2019

Farishta

Farishta has 33 recorded births since 2019 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.

#39,818 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,002 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
33
born since 2019
2020s
peak decade

Farishta currently ranks #13002 among girls' names in America, with 33 babies recorded since 2019.

Farishta has 33 recorded births among girls since 2019, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13002 as of the latest data, more common than 25% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2019 to 2025.

  • #39,818 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #13,002 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 33 born since 2019
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Farishta ranks #39,818 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,002 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 33 born since 2019, peaking in the 2020s.

#39,818 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,002 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
33
born since 2019
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%24.8%
Farishta vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Farishta's 33 recorded births place it above 44.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Farishta compares

33 12th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Farishta's all-time total is 91% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Farishta Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 33 376 567,345
Peak-year births 14 21 19,840

Farishta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Splitting Farishta's full recorded timeline at 2023, 64% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 36% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2019, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 14 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.

Farishta popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2023)
14
Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
46810121416 2019202220232025 7

Farishta by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (28 births, 85% of the file).

2020s was Farishta's strongest decade.

28 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 85% of all-time use.

Farishta births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 28 births (85% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Farishta?
Farishta has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 2019, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #39,818 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #13,002 of 17,297. 14 babies were born in 2023, its single highest year.
Where does Farishta sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Farishta ranks #39,818 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,002 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Farishta most popular?
Farishta was most popular in the 2020s decade with 28 total births. The single peak year was 2023.
How long has the name Farishta been used?
The SSA has tracked Farishta since 2019 -- 7 years through the most recent 2025 data.
What names are similar to Farishta?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Farrah, Farah, Fara, Farida, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Two nationwide peer axes for Farishta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2019–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Farishta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.