Girls' name · since 1976
Faten
179 babies named Faten in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,944 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,370 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 179
- born since 1976
- 1980s
- peak decade
Faten currently ranks #15370 among girls' names in America, with 179 babies recorded since 1976.
Faten has 179 recorded births among girls since 1976, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15370 as of the latest data, more common than 11% of girls, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1976 to 2025.
- #20,944 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,370 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 179 born since 1976
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Faten ranks #20,944 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,370 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 179 born since 1976, peaking in the 1980s.
- #20,944 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,370 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 179
- born since 1976
- 1980s
- peak decade
Faten's 179 recorded births place it above 70.98% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Faten compares
179 35th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Faten's all-time total is 52% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Faten | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 179 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 14 | 21 | 19,840 |
Faten's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Faten splits its recorded history at 1989: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1978 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1981 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Faten popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1976–2025
- Peak year (1981)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 50 years of records
Faten by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (66 births, 37% of the file).
1980s was Faten's strongest decade.
66 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.
Faten births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
28 births
- 1980s
1980s
66 births
- 1990s
1990s
62 births
- 2000s 12
2000s
12 births
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 66 births (37% of all-time use).
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- Faten's decade-level peak was the 1980s (66 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Faten: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1981)
Similar record span (~49 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1976–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Faten draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.