Farah

Where Farah comes from

Borrowed from Arabic فَرَح (faraḥ, “joy”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Farah
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
Farah through the years
  1. 1960
    First appearance
    #2,820 among girls with 19 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Peak, #803
    173 babies named Farah, its best rank.
  3. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,614.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Farah in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.