Farai

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Farai is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ZWZimbabwe1 in 2.5K◐
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 40K
  • ZMZambia1 in 46K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈176 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
100 ●

2.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 750K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Farai is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa—855846 rec.——Farai39
GB United Kingdom—650330 rec.——Farai66
ZW Zimbabwe#23233892 rec.——Farai44
AU Australia—332317 rec.——Farai44
IN India—12875 rec.—1Farai8
US United States—123817 rec.1 in 2.7M123Farai100
ZM Zambia—4611 rec.——Farai9
DE Germany—3756 rec.——Farai19
ID Indonesia—3218 rec.——Farai20
PL Poland—28—1 in 1.4M28——
CA Canada—2727 rec.——Farai18
NG Nigeria—1937 rec.——Farai11

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.7K42%
  • Swahili1.5K24%
  • 3355%
  • Hindi3065%
  • Indonesian1593%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,69142%
Swahili1,51924%
3355%
Hindi3065%
Indonesian1593%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Farai is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name262 records spelled Farai5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe

    Also written Fàŕáî, Fāřáì, Faraï, Fãrāi

  • French given name213 records spelled Farai2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Faraï

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Farai is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, second-person singular future of fare

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence●

Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Farai
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020123#40,999
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—64#87,998
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202057#40,999
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202628#5,062
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—24#5,188
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—16#13,459
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—11#27,267
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#44,714
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#45,693
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—9#23,928
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—8#38,816
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20268#3,349

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 28 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Farai?
We estimate roughly 176 people bear Farai (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Farai have the most bearers?
Farai is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled farai.
How common is Farai compared with other names?
In Zimbabwe, Farai is the 232nd most common given name of 3,651 given names recorded there.
Is Farai a male or female name?
Farai is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Farai” — the 232nd most common given name in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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