Faron
Faron was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,166 among boys’ names; 2,472 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,060 Americans named Faron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 40 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Faron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Faron?
#9,166 among boys’ names, 2025
Faron fell from #6,443 in 2015 to #9,166 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 4.7 per million.
145 babies in 1956, the peak
Faron peaked in 1956, when 145 boys were given it, #630 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,166 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,408 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,887 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,413 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,432 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,691 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,139 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,281 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,985 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,355 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,443 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,036 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,994 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,371 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,280 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,225 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,891 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,571 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,108 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,876 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,510 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,144 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,976 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,689 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,771 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,115 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,767 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,584 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,773 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,297 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,124 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,791 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,115 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,355 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,870 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,243 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,125 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,537 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,871 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,314 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,377 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,387 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,606 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,946 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,284 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,777 | 17.9 |
| 1979 | 40 | #1,494 | 23.2 |
| 1978 | 33 | #1,668 | 20.1 |
| 1977 | 37 | #1,522 | 22.5 |
| 1976 | 31 | #1,684 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,566 | 21.1 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,482 | 22.3 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,154 | 32.7 |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,182 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 40 | #1,337 | 22.6 |
| 1970 | 58 | #1,072 | 31.2 |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,031 | 31.3 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,105 | 26.5 |
| 1967 | 72 | #844 | 41.3 |
| 1966 | 73 | #850 | 40.9 |
| 1965 | 67 | #903 | 36.0 |
| 1964 | 67 | #932 | 33.6 |
| 1963 | 72 | #883 | 35.4 |
| 1962 | 80 | #845 | 38.7 |
| 1961 | 107 | #743 | 50.4 |
| 1960 | 77 | #867 | 36.1 |
| 1959 | 76 | #880 | 35.6 |
| 1958 | 75 | #873 | 35.3 |
| 1957 | 107 | #722 | 49.6 |
| 1956 | 145 | #630 | 68.5 |
| 1955 | 118 | #671 | 57.3 |
| 1954 | 82 | #796 | 40.2 |
| 1953 | 54 | #981 | 27.4 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,290 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Faron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,472 Americans recorded as Faron, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Faron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Faron, and how old are they?
2,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 2,472 Americans ever recorded as Faron. The median Faron alive today is 57 years old; half are between 40 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 1,854 people named Faron (124 women and girls, 1,730 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,109 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 771 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 657 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 329 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 161 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 137 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,017 babies since 1880, Faron is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 80 babies (10%), 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 Faron
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 Faron and names like it
- Compare Faron and FarhanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sFaron peaked in 1956.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Faron since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Faron.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Faron alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.