Farra
Farra was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 118 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Farra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Farra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,887, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1977, the peak
Farra peaked in 1977, when 20 girls were given it, #3,657 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,887 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,732 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,211 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,664 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,772 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,977 | 5.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,508 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,967 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,303 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,879 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 20 | #3,657 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,849 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,516 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,127 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,834 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Farra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Farra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Farra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Farra, and how old are they?
An estimated 113 Americans named Farra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 42 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 241 people named Farra (229 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 111 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Farra rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Farra?
Farra is a less common spelling of Farrah: SSA has recorded 118 Farra and 12,163 Farrah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,039 babies since 1880, Farra is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 362 babies recorded by SSA was a Farra (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Farra
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 Farra and names like it
- Compare Farra and FarrahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sFarra peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Farra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Farra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with FMost given first.