Farrah is an alternate spelling of the Arabic name Farah meaning ‘joy’ or ‘happiness’.
Farrah is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Farrah isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Farrah ranks 835. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Farrah. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Farrah.
Farrah is an alternate spelling of the Arabic name Farah meaning ‘joy’ or ‘happiness’.
In the US,... this name received attention through actress Farrah Fawcett during the 1970s.
Farrah is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Farrah - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 176 in 1977. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Farrah really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Farrah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
199 babies were named Farrah in 2022 - that's 1 in 744,884 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Farrah ranked 1,096 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an F. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Farrah is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.2% of all girls' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with F that are quite popular, the most common at present is Frances.
If your name is Farrah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Farrah, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Farrah
Farrah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
F
A
R
R
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
F
A
R
R
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Farrah sounds like this:
