Fares
Masculine · “horseman”
Faris is a horseman in Arabic — a knight — and the word for chivalry, furusiyya, comes from the same root.
How old is the name Fares?
Fares first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Fares is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Fares are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Fares most popular?
Fares peaked in 2012, reaching #2448 nationally. Today it ranks #2676, 228 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.
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Where it comes from
From faras to Fares
The story of Fares
Furusiyya was a codified discipline — horsemanship, archery, lance work and the conduct expected of a mounted warrior — with a substantial literature of its own, and faris names the man who practiced it. Fares is a common Levantine spelling and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
horseman, knight
From the Arabic faris, 'horseman' or 'knight', from faras, 'horse'. Furusiyya names the whole discipline of horsemanship and martial conduct, the Arabic equivalent of chivalry. The Fares spelling is Levantine. The Arabic is documented.
How the name formed
- faras
- faris
- Fares
Related forms: فارس · Faris
Pronouncing Fares
FAH-res
Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic Faris is said much the same way.
Nicknames for Fares
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
- 1976
- Most boys named
- 201251 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2448reached in 2012
- Change vs 2024
- +6.7%48 in 2025, from 45
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.
Fares in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- فارس in Arabic — transliteration
- Faris in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Faress among us
people named Fares are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 35,585 born in 2025 was named Fares
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Fares
- #2676
- Fares on the 2025 chart
- #875
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Fares went to 48 boys in 2025, but Pharez is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 53, which makes it the 875th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,801 places above the chart.
- Fares48
- Pharez5
About 1 boy in 32,228 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 35,585 for Fares itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Collen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Fares's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Collen climbed just as high around 1997, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Collen's path sketches the road Fares is walking now.
Fares 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
Where Fares is headed
Fares should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Fares beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Fares in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That furusiyya was a codified discipline with its own literature is a first-rate fact.
- The horseman meaning is concrete and strong.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- Faris is the commoner transliteration.
- It is a homograph of the English 'fares'.
- It reads as specifically Arabic.
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Masculine · #2676 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Faress are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Fares are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Fares?
- Fares is the most-used spelling in US records — 48 of the 53 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Pharez.
- How popular is the name Fares in 2025?
- Fares ranks #2676 among US boy names in 2025, with 48 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Fares?
- About 1 in every 35,585 US boys born in 2025 was named Fares — 48 in all.
- Will my child share the name Fares with classmates?
- Fares will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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