Farhad

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Farhad: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Farhad: Recorded since 1958, it reached #364 in 1963, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#364highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1337
1997	#1578
1998	#1485
1999	#1850
2000	#1241
2001	#2220
2002	#2005
2003	#1771
2004	#3651
2005	#1991
2006	#1892
2007	#2211
2008	#2775
2009	#3227
2010	#4678
2011	#2892
2012	#3987
2014	#2964
2015	#2707
2018	#3959
2019	#3411
2020	#4608
2024	#3688

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 30 of the 45 years from 1958 to 2002.

In 2002: #517 among boys in Norway, #2005 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1958–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1958
First recorded at #416 among boys in Norway in 1958 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1958–2002
Highest recorded position: #364 among boys in Norway, in 1963 (recorded 1958–2002).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Farhad appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1958, and has registered 168 births with the name.

Farhad across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Farhad's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#416 (1958)	#364 (1963)	#517 (2002)	30 of 45	168 (1958–2002)	10 (1995)
England and Wales · Boys	#1337 (1996)	#1241 (2000)	#3688 (2024)	23 of 29	142 (1996–2024)	11 (2000)

Farhad by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Farhad in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	5	1 of 10	5
1960sbusiest	49	8 of 10	6
1970s	31	6 of 10	5
1980s	22	4 of 10	6
1990s	45	8 of 10	6
2000s	16	3 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Farhad appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #364 in Norway in 1963.

Farhad's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1241	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1337	9	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#517	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#496	5	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#417	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#506	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#462	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#473	6	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#378	10	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#592	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#591	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#525	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#615	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#540	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#580	5	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#567	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#534	6	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#459	8	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#594	4	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#605	4	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#541	5	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#585	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#511	6	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#560	4	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#492	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#496	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#400	8	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#375	8	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#364	8	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#413	6	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#439	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#416	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Farhad is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Farhad, between 1958 and 2024, in 47 of those 67 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1958–2002	30	#364 in 1963
England and Wales	1996–2024	23	#1241 in 2000

Its high point came 37 years earlier in Norway (1963) than in England and Wales (2000).

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 1984; it appears again in 1990.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1958 and 2024, ranked in 47 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #364, first reached in 1963.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

Its record falls into 13 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 38 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Farha · #1697, 24y
Farhaan · #678, 28y
Farhan · #333, 30y
Farhana · #520, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Georgios · #365, 52y
Abdulkadir · #354, 48y
Amer · #354, 49y
Sahar · #378, 50y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Abbas · #365, 56y
Bushra · #363, 54y
Hong · #360, 38y
Mehdi · #368, 57y

Farhad was ranked #364 in Norway · Boys in 1963. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bjørge#360
Brede#361
Eilif#362
Esben#363
Georgios#365
Ingve#366
Jonas#367
Kay#368

Farhad and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Farhad without appearing here.

Farhad moved ahead of

Shannon
In 2005 they stood at #3651 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1892 and #4052.
Glenn
In 2023 they stood at #4608 and #3848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.
Graham
In 2023 they stood at #4608 and #2404 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.
Kelly
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #3011 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #4702.

Moved ahead of Farhad

Ronny
In 2003 they stood at #1771 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #906.
Kasper
In 2003 they stood at #1771 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #1347.
Gunnar
In 2017 they stood at #2707 and #3373 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3959 and #1786.
Rodney
In 2019 they stood at #3411 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2682.

Moved the opposite way to Farhad

Marcus
Between 1963 and 2002 in Norway · Boys, Farhad went from #364 to #517 while Marcus went from #399 to #24.
Albie
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Farhad went from #1337 to #3688 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Farhad went from #1337 to #3688 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Farhad went from #1337 to #3688 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.

Moved the same way as Farhad

Aaron
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Farhad went from #1337 to #3688 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Farhad went from #1337 to #3688 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Farhad went from #1337 to #3688 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Farhad went from #1337 to #3688 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #364 in Norway in 1963. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Farhad

Farhad at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Farhad across 2 official records

Farhad by decade in Norway · Boys

Farhad appears in

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Farhad at a glance

Farhad across 2 official records

Farhad by decade in Norway · Boys

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Farhad moved ahead of

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