Farrah
Farrah was given to 168 girls in 2025, #1,328 among girls’ names; 12,163 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,900 Americans named Farrah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Farrah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Farrah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Farrah is “a female given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “iron worker, smith” (ferreor).
Variant of Farrar, from Middle English ferreor (“iron worker, smith”). The given name was popularized by the American actress Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009). Her name is often interpreted as a variant of Farah.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Farrah?
#1,328 among girls’ names, 2025
Farrah fell from #785 in 2015 to #1,328 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.20 to 0.10 per 1,000.
1,515 babies in 1977, the peak
Farrah peaked in 1977, when 1,515 girls were given it, #177 among girls’ names. The 168 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 168 | #1,328 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 211 | #1,147 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 168 | #1,345 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 199 | #1,216 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 197 | #1,209 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 189 | #1,212 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 219 | #1,113 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 255 | #1,020 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 255 | #1,017 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 282 | #960 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 360 | #785 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 369 | #757 | 0.21 |
| 2013 | 456 | #614 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 535 | #554 | 0.30 |
| 2011 | 538 | #541 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 530 | #551 | 0.30 |
| 2009 | 240 | #1,064 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 154 | #1,513 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 163 | #1,446 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 185 | #1,286 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 142 | #1,481 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,548 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,375 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,523 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,396 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,541 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,516 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,419 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 132 | #1,312 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 122 | #1,375 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 117 | #1,401 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 114 | #1,405 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 129 | #1,306 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 109 | #1,451 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 119 | #1,364 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 119 | #1,337 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 143 | #1,149 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 183 | #925 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 181 | #917 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 121 | #1,172 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 123 | #1,159 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 132 | #1,060 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 122 | #1,112 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 141 | #1,032 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 135 | #1,057 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 170 | #894 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 200 | #792 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 332 | #539 | 0.22 |
| 1977 | 1,515 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 836 | #276 | 0.57 |
| 1975 | 81 | #1,335 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,038 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,289 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,569 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,476 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Farrah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Farrah has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Farrah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Farrah, and how old are they?
11,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 12,163 Americans ever recorded as Farrah. The median Farrah alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 10,175 people named Farrah (10,130 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,873 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,060 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,310 |
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 Farrah born?
The states with the most babies named Farrah are California, Texas and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,247 | #1,436 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 1,044 | #1,736 | 0.9× |
| New York | 878 | #2,202 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 670 | #1,138 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 455 | #1,115 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 441 | #779 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 374 | #1,064 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 372 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 358 | #1,181 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 343 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Farrah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Farrah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1968 it was given 1.2 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 Farrah 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 20,380 babies since 1880, Farrah is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 168 of their 344 babies (49%), again the most given.
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 Farrah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Keya | 1,911 |
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 Farrah and names like it
- Compare Farrah and FarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sFarrah peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Farrah since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Farrah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Farrah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Farrah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.