Farron
Farron was last recorded in 2022, when 9 babies were given it; 721 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Farron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Farron?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,518, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1987, the peak
Farron peaked in 1987, when 40 babies were given it (7 boys, #5,675 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | under 5 | 9 | #8,518 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,054 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #9,887 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #12,770 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,192 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 6 | #11,111 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #12,729 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 7 | #10,053 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #12,873 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,511 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #11,239 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,108 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #7,672 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #10,434 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,910 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,215 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,298 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,403 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,762 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,852 | 7 | #6,747 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #8,537 | |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,119 | 8 | #5,815 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,904 | 14 | #3,580 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,926 | 7 | #5,675 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,076 | 11 | #3,956 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,874 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,821 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 12 | #3,473 | |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,302 | 13 | #3,355 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,681 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 9 | #4,254 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,372 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 11 | #3,474 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 15 | #2,823 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,477 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,318 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,219 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 13 | #2,721 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 10 | #3,215 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 11 | #2,952 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 14 | #2,347 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 21 | #1,746 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 13 | #2,275 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 15 | #2,075 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 10 | #2,672 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 17 | #2,000 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 10 | #2,733 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 15 | #2,137 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 23 | #1,704 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 23 | #1,705 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 21 | #1,775 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 25 | #1,563 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 19 | #1,851 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 30 | #1,424 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 18 | #1,864 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 21 | #1,674 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 13 | #2,217 | |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,546 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Farron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 721 Americans recorded as Farron, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Farron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Farron, and how old are they?
An estimated 620 Americans named Farron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 38 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 659 people named Farron (182 women and girls, 477 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 626 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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, Farron is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 none of their 80 babies recorded by SSA was a Farron (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 Farron
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1930-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Ricci | 1,733 |
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 Farron and names like it
- Compare Farron and FaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sFarron peaked in 1987.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Farron since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Farron.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Farron alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with FMost given first.