Faridah

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Farida in BD Bangladesh, US United States, SE Sweden and 7 more, Фарида in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 4 more, Radha in IN India, NO Norway, CZ Czechia and 3 more and Рада in UA Ukraine, BG Bulgaria.

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●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Faridah is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name967 records spelled Faridah5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, France, Philippines, United States

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Farīdah

• a separate given name202 records spelled Faridah2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, United States

  Also written Farīdah

• Pashto given name49 records spelled Faridah2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, Afghanistan, Sweden

  Also written Farīdah

33 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●

Faridah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• unique; pride; large pearl

  as a name·Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

• Highly

  as a name·Dictionary of Islamic Names

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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 20 years between 2001–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Faridah Mericanb. 1939MYMalaysian actor, director, producer and dramaturge
• Faridah Nohb. 1952SGbadminton player
• Faridah Nabaggalab. 1971NONorwegian writer , film maker and administrator
• Faridah Nakazibweb. 1984UGUgandan model and media entrepreneur
• Faridah NdausiUGUganda actress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 58 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Faridah?

We estimate roughly 88 thousand people bear Faridah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Faridah have the most bearers?

Faridah is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled radha.

Where is Faridah most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Faridah is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 329 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Faridah compared with other names?

In India, Faridah is the 84th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Faridah a male or female name?

Faridah is a female 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 Faridah mean?

Recorded meaning: Alternative form of fard (“Islamic commandment”).