Fareed
Masculine · “unique”
Farid means unique, and the image behind it is very specific: a pearl that has not been strung with others, kept apart because it has no match. The word is used for the pearl before it is used for the person.
How old is the name Fareed?
Fareed first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Fareed alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 700 people named Fareed are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Fareed most popular?
Fareed peaked in 1980, reaching #2284 nationally. Today it ranks #6446, 4,162 places below that high. See the whole 1980 chart.
Where it comes from
From farid to Fareed
The story of Fareed
Arabic naming draws heavily on adjectives of excellence, and farid is among the strongest of them, because it does not merely praise but says that no comparison is possible. The name is used across the Arabic-speaking world, in Iran and Turkey, and very widely in South Asia; the Punjabi Sufi poet Baba Farid, a thirteenth-century figure whose verses are included in the Sikh scriptures, made it a common name well beyond Muslim families in that region. The Fareed spelling writes the long vowel the way English marks one, with a doubled e, and its best year in United States records is 1980.
Meaning
unique, matchless, a single pearl
Arabic farid, from the root f-r-d, to be single, alone or unpaired. The word covers unique, incomparable and, concretely, a pearl of exceptional quality kept unstrung. The related fard means an individual or one of a pair, and the whole root turns on singleness. Al-Farid appears in classical Arabic poetry and in the name of the thirteenth-century Egyptian poet Ibn al-Farid.
How the name formed
- farid
- Farid
- Fareed
Related forms: Farid · Farid · Ferit · Fareed
Pronouncing Fareed
fah-REED
Two syllables with the stress at the end. The doubled e marks the long vowel that Arabic writes with a letter and English otherwise leaves ambiguous.
Nicknames for Fareed
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 200936 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2284reached in 1980
- Change vs 2024
- −27.8%13 in 2025, from 18
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Fareed in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Farid in Arabic — transliteration
- Farid in Persian — same name
- Ferit in Turkish — same name
- Fareed in Urdu — same name
Fareeds among us
people named Fareed are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 131,390 born in 2025 was named Fareed
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Fredderick test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Fareed's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Fredderick climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Fredderick's path sketches the road Fareed is walking now.
Fareed sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Fareed beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Fareed in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Arabic meaning with a vivid concrete image behind it.
- The spelling tells an English reader exactly how to say it.
- Reed is available as a completely ordinary English-sounding short form.
- Farid is the standard international transliteration and will be written instead.
- It is close to Farhad, Fahad and Fahim and gets confused with all three.
- Fareed and Farid split the records between them.
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Frequently asked
- How many Fareeds are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Fareed are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Fareed in 2025?
- Fareed ranks #6446 among US boy names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Fareed?
- About 1 in every 131,390 US boys born in 2025 was named Fareed — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Fareed with classmates?
- Fareed will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Fareed
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