Faris

maleStatistical record

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

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

Faris: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #376, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#376highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#818
1997	#914
1998	#1055
1999	#906
2000	#848
2001	#503
2002	#524
2003	#586
2004	#541
2005	#565
2006	#528
2007	#543
2008	#453
2009	#444
2010	#470
2011	#537
2012	#492
2013	#546
2014	#540
2015	#571
2016	#585
2017	#522
2018	#511
2019	#512
2020	#513
2021	#577
2022	#606
2023	#487
2024	#376

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #376 among boys in England and Wales, #404 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #818 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #376 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Faris appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,672 births with the name.

Faris 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.

Faris'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
England and Wales · Boys	#818 (1996)	#376 (2024)	#376 (2024)	29 of 29	1,672 (1996–2024)	111 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#604 (2009)	#604 (2009)	#676 (2025)	5 of 17	17 (2009–2025)	4 (2009)

Faris by decade in England and Wales · 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 Faris in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	64	4 of 10	16
2000s	508	10 of 10	51
2010s	707	10 of 10	71
2020sbusiest	393	5 of 10	79

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 79 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 29, from 82 to 111.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Faris 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #376 in England and Wales in 2024.

Faris'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	#376	111	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#487	82	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#606	61	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#577	66	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#513	73	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#512	76	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#511	76	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#522	75	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#585	62	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#571	65	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#540	69	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#546	66	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#492	77	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#537	65	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#470	76	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#444	84	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#453	79	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#543	57	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#528	56	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#565	47	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#541	48	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#586	38	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#524	40	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#503	40	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#848	19	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#906	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1055	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#914	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#818	18	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#604	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#404	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #376, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 111 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 28 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.

Faridah · #2019, 19y
Fariha · #971, 29y
Farley · #1507, 24y
Farouk · #2074, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Yaseen · #376, 30y
Aden · #375, 29y
Bryson · #375, 25y
Izaac · #375, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ellie-Mai · #376, 29y
Kyrie · #376, 23y
Tyrell · #376, 29y
Yaseen · #376, 30y

Faris was ranked #376 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. 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.

Faris 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Faris without appearing here.

Faris moved ahead of

Derek Compare
In 2000 they stood at #848 and #848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #503 and #1078.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2000 they stood at #848 and #773 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #503 and #983.
Darragh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #848 and #731 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #503 and #910.
Gerard Compare
In 2000 they stood at #848 and #794 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #503 and #883.

Moved ahead of Faris

Lachlan Compare
In 2014 they stood at #540 and #558 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #571 and #363.
Cillian Compare
In 2014 they stood at #540 and #550 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #571 and #404.
Oskar Compare
In 1996 they stood at #818 and #976 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #914 and #759.
Arlo Compare
In 2008 they stood at #453 and #567 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #444 and #311.

Moved the opposite way to Faris

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faris went from #818 to #376 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faris went from #818 to #376 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faris went from #818 to #376 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faris went from #818 to #376 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Faris

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faris went from #818 to #376 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faris went from #818 to #376 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faris went from #818 to #376 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faris went from #818 to #376 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #376 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Faris

Faris at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Faris across 2 official records

Faris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Faris appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Faris at a glance

Faris across 2 official records

Faris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Faris appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Faris

Faris and the names beside it

Faris moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Faris

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