Faryn
Faryn was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,660 among girls’ names; 448 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Faryn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Faryn?
#9,660 among girls’ names, 2025
Faryn fell from #9,132 in 2015 to #9,660 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 6.2 per million.
22 babies in 1987, the peak
Faryn peaked in 1987, when 22 girls were given it, #3,887 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,660 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,068 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,185 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,672 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,550 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,111 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,704 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,841 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,447 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,366 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,132 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,626 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,887 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,353 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,492 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,412 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,198 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,985 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,226 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,604 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,189 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,968 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,714 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,457 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,474 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,154 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,764 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,531 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,551 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,999 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,861 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,167 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,408 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,095 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,703 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,616 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,390 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,887 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,234 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,677 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,489 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,389 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Faryn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Faryn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Faryn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Faryn, and how old are they?
An estimated 442 Americans named Faryn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 389 people named Faryn (379 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,710 babies since 1880, Faryn is the third most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 37 babies (27%), 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 Faryn
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 Faryn and names like it
- Compare Faryn and FranBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sFaryn peaked in 1987.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Faryn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Faryn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.