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The first name 
Farhan

Farhan is a first name for boys.

When two boys called Farhan meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Farhan is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Farhan. In the SmartGenius ranking, Farhan is #2,168 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Farhan.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Farhan

Farhan -
special from day one

In fact, the name Farhan hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Farhan wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1984, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,862, 25 parents chose it in 1984 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Farhan, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Farhan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Farhan - originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Farhan a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 2,067, for a total of 61 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Farhan seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.

Farhan -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Farhan. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 710 Americans who bear this name. And these 710 men and boys named Farhan live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey. In the other 41 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Farhan lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Farhan and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Farhan relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 32,484 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Farhan.

Farhan has 6 letters 
and begins with an F

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 boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an F. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With six letters, the name Farhan 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.

Therefore: As 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual boys' names with F are really popular, the most common currently being Frank.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Farhan

If your name is Farhan 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...

This is how you spell the name Farhan

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Farhan, you can simply say:

Fox

Apple

Rocket

Hat

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Farhan is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Farhan in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Farhan

Farhan

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Farhan

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Farhan is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

F
A
R
H
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Farhan

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
H
A
N

Beeping like crazy...

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. Farhan sounds like this: