How Many People Are Named Farid?

1,089

people named Farid are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 313,852 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,120 babies named Farid in Social Security records from 1962 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#10,025

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#3,676

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Peak Year

2025

46 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Arabic, Iranian, Urdu, Azerbaijani
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Means "unique, precious", derived from Arabic فرد (farada) "to be unique". This was the name of a 13th-century Persian poet.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Farid in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Farid alive today is about 21 years old, and 69% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 34 in 2025.

Under 30 756
69.4%
30 to 59 328
30.1%
60 and over 6
0.6%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Farid first appears in the records in 1962, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 46 babies.

Babies given the name each year, 1962 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Farid has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #2,394, in 1977. In 2025 it ranked #2,774.

Boys
Rank in 2025#2,774
Best rank#2,394 (1977)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#3,958 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Farid alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Farid were born in California than in any other state: about 150 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Farid was given 4 times as often in California and 2.1 times in Texas.

California 150
Texas 61
New York 33
Florida 20
New Jersey 6
Illinois 5
Pennsylvania 5

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