Farhad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: "Mas. pr. name"; "lover of Shirin'”® (Persian literature)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Farhad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 7th most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 478(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.7K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 272as Fahad
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Farhad itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 478 (inferred from the name graph)
≈320,000 named Fahad, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fahad in SA Saudi Arabia, PK Pakistan, KW Kuwait and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"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(measured from records)
Farhad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #186 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 733 | listed | Fahad | 128 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #21 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 272 | listed | Fahad | 213 |
| BD Bangladesh | #259 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Fahad | 93 |
| AF Afghanistan | #35 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 478 | — | Farhad | 36 |
| OM Oman | #7 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 386 | — | Fahad | 85 |
| KW Kuwait | #20 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 288 | — | Fahad | 139 |
| QA Qatar | #45 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 666 | — | Fahad | 104 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,014 | 1 in 10K | 1K | Farhad | 39 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1K | #1,673 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 789 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Farhad mean, and where does it come from?
- "Mas. pr. name"; "lover of Shirin'”® (Persian literature) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- 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 are other forms of the name Farhad?
- In the etymology graph, Ferhat and Fərhad are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Farhad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 318 thousand people named Fahad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Farhad?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,014 people named Farhad, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Farhad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Farhad is the 186th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/farhadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 186th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.