Farrah is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning “joy.” In 2024 it was given to 209 girls in the United States.
Farrah at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic · Persian
Meaning
“joy”
About the name Farrah
Farrah belongs to the Muslim & Arabic and Persian tradition. Its meaning — “joy” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Farrah first appears in Social Security records in 1968. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #177 in 1977, and in 2024 209 babies received the name — 11,984 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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