Faris

What Faris means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Faris yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #379 vs #1,297 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Faris?

US: Rising: up from #1444 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #571 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 150 boys got the name (#1297 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 11,387 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,495 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,786 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VA (0.32 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.21 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.18 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Faris is #1297 in the US and #379 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Faris were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Fares48 US · 14 E&W
• Ferris38 US · 4 E&W
• Faaris6 US · 12 E&W
• Farris11 US · 4 E&W
• Firas13 US
• Faraz5 US · 7 E&W
• Feras7 US
• Varis5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Faris

Boys

• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Cooper#27Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #77 in 2015, #27 in 2025
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025

For a sister

• Sofia#9“wisdom, especially divine wisdom”^*
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Camila#19Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #19 vs #1,051 in 2025
• Adalynn#184Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Faris’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.