Farhad
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Farhad is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh. In Oman it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Persian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: "Mas. pr. name"; "lover of Shirin'”® (Persian literature).
- KWKuwait1 in 308◐
- OMOman1 in 470
- QAQatar1 in 548
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.8K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 249 ●
- 1 in 11K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
242K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fahad in BD Bangladesh, SA Saudi Arabia, IN India and 11 more, Fahd in FR France, EG Egypt, MA Morocco and 3 more and Фархад in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
"Mas. pr. name"; "lover of Shirin'”® (Persian literature)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #249 | 124,933 | 4.1K rec. | — | listed | Fahad | 90 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #32 | 37,398 | 21K rec. | — | listed | Fahad | 199 |
| IN India | — | 33,864 | 17K rec. | — | 38 | Fahad | 111 |
| RU Russia | #679 | 31,904 | 22K rec. | — | #659 | Фархад | 115 |
| PK Pakistan | #188 | 31,872 | 8.6K rec. | — | listed | Fahad | 113 |
| IR Iran | — | 9,996 | 7.3K rec. | — | — | Farhad | 77 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,353 | 6.4K rec. | — | 3 | Farhad | 104 |
| KW Kuwait | #26 | 7,423 | 6.7K rec. | — | — | Fahad | 121 |
| PH Philippines | — | 5,316 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Fahad | 33 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #648 | 5,170 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Фархад | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | 4,875 | 4.9K rec. | — | 1 | Farhad | 96 |
| EG Egypt | #866 | 4,668 | 3.4K rec. | — | listed | Fahd | 68 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English26K22%
- Persian16K14%
- Hindi13K11%
- Arabic9.7K8%
- Urdu7.9K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 25,971 | 22% |
| Persian | 16,337 | 14% |
| Hindi | 13,361 | 11% |
| Arabic | 9,652 | 8% |
| Urdu | 7,887 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Farhad 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 Swedish, Farhad är ett persiskt namn efter en hjältemyt i en tragisk romantisk persisk saga (Farhad och Shirin). Det har också burits av flera fornpersiska kungar. Namnet betyder ’lycka, glädje; förtjänad’. Ferhat är en variantform.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1919 | 2 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 3 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1945 | 2 |
| 1946 | 11 |
| 1947 | 3 |
| 1948 | 1 |
| 1949 | 3 |
| 1950 | 4 |
| 1951 | 7 |
| 1952 | 7 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 7 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 9 |
| 1957 | 12 |
| 1958 | 13 |
| 1959 | 15 |
| 1960 | 18 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1962 | 20 |
| 1963 | 18 |
| 1964 | 21 |
| 1965 | 23 |
| 1966 | 31 |
| 1967 | 24 |
| 1968 | 24 |
| 1969 | 24 |
| 1970 | 25 |
| 1971 | 25 |
| 1972 | 52 |
| 1973 | 32 |
| 1974 | 45 |
| 1975 | 55 |
| 1976 | 47 |
| 1977 | 54 |
| 1978 | 66 |
| 1979 | 52 |
| 1980 | 37 |
| 1981 | 71 |
| 1982 | 66 |
| 1983 | 81 |
| 1984 | 80 |
| 1985 | 69 |
| 1986 | 61 |
| 1987 | 74 |
| 1988 | 65 |
| 1989 | 54 |
| 1990 | 61 |
| 1991 | 62 |
| 1992 | 67 |
| 1993 | 67 |
| 1994 | 56 |
| 1995 | 37 |
| 1996 | 20 |
| 1997 | 23 |
| 1998 | 15 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2012 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 6 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 77 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Farhad Daftaryb. 1938GBIslamic scholar
- Farhad Moshirib. 1955IRBritish-Iranian businessman
- Farhad Daryab. 1962AFAfghan singer/writer/composer/philanthropist
- Farhad Aslanib. 1966IRIranian actor
- Farhad Samjib. 1974INIndian film director and screenwriter
- Farhad Safiniab. 1975IRIranian-American screenwriter
- Farhad Majidib. 1976IRIranian footballer
- Farhad Manjoob. 1978USAmerican journalist
- Farhad N. Fatkullinb. 1979RUinterpreter, Wikimedian, Wikipedian of the year 2018
- Farhad Ghaemib. 1989IRIranian volleyball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 442 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Farhad?
- We estimate roughly 5.8 thousand people bear Farhad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Farhad have the most bearers?
- Farhad is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled fahad.
- How common is Farhad compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Farhad is the 249th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Farhad a male or female name?
- Farhad 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.
- What does the name Farhad mean?
- Recorded meaning: "Mas. pr. name"; "lover of Shirin'”® (Persian literature)
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About this data
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, “Farhad” — the 249th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.