Folarin
Folarin was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,574 among boys’ names; 78 Americans have been recorded with it since 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Folarin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Folarin?
#6,574 among boys’ names, 2025
Folarin entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #6,574 in 2025.
13 babies in 2023, the peak
Folarin peaked in 2023, when 13 boys were given it, #6,649 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,574 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,916 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,649 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,308 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,776 | 5.7 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,313 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,212 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,112 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,163 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Folarin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Folarin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Folarin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Folarin, and how old are they?
An estimated 77 Americans named Folarin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 159 people named Folarin (11 women and girls, 148 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 135 babies since 1880, Folarin is the most given (58% of them).
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 Folarin
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 Folarin and names like it
- Compare Folarin and FlorinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFolarin peaked in 2023.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Folarin.
- Names starting with FMost given first.