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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Farah

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#1,350

up +14 places

2025 births

164

down −3 births

All-time births

6,278

3% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2012
178 births
Best rank
#803
in 1976
First recorded
1960
#2,841 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2002
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
66 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 2012178#1,324Peak
  2. 2018177#1,290
  3. 1976173#803
  4. 2023173#1,310
  5. 1977172#855

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #803 in 1976 · peak births 178 in 2012

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 2% boys■ 98% girls

98 boys · 6,278 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Farah has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.