girls:
5.9k births since 1960
#2158 (62nd percentile)
boys:
98 births since 1988
#4488 (2nd percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1960
#3484 (55th percentile)
The name Farah is the #3,484 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,044 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 55.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,158 (62.2% percentile) for all time with 5,946 births since 1960. For boys, it ranks #4,488 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 1988.
Farah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for girls and 1988 for boys).
The name Farah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Farah reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 22.1% percentile (ranked #592) with 110 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 110 births per million (ranked 22.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Farah ranks #779 for girls (17.8% percentile) with 99 births per million, which is 89.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Farah reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #751) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Farah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Farah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Farrah" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Farrah..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Farah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.2% confident that Farah is pronounced as FAH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FEH-ruh, at 27.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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