Farid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic: unique, singular; noted as the name of an Egyptian singer and popular in East Africa
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Farid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 358(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 591
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.6K
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 Farid 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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 322 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 358 (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fadi in SY Syria, FR France, LB Lebanon and 1 more and Фарид in AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
Arabic: unique, singular; noted as the name of an Egyptian singer and popular in East Africa.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Farid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #31 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 591 | — | Farid | 78 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #84 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 358 | 14 | Фарид | 90 |
| SY Syria | #78 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 787 | — | Fadi | 82 |
| FR France | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 18K | Fadi | 234 |
| MA Morocco | #261 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Farid | 77 |
| JO Jordan | #225 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 486 | — | Fadi | 111 |
| LB Lebanon | #172 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Fadi | 105 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,683 | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Farid | 47 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Farid is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘Unique’, ‘unrivalled’. Feminine form: Farida (also meaning ‘gem’). 292
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Farid är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’unik’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, unique, matchless, precious
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, unique, matchless
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, unique
as a nameAfrican Muslim 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Attar of Nishapurb. 1145IRnot in their usual namePersian Sufi poet (c. 1145 – c. 1221)
- Farid al-Atrashb. 1917SYSyrian-Egyptian singer, composer and musician (1910-1974)
- Färit Möxämmätşinb. 1947RUnot in their usual nameTatar politician
- Farid Benstitib. 1967FRfootball player and manager
- Farid Larbib. 1974FRFrench actor
- Farid Mansurovb. 1982AZAzerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler
- Farid Díazb. 1983COColombian association football player
- Farid Bangb. 1986ESGerman rapper
- Yu Darvishb. 1986JPnot in their usual nameJapanese professional baseball pitcher
- Farid Mammadovb. 1991AZAzerbaijani singer
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 94 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 18K | #1,873 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.7K | #1,417 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.3K | #693 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 14 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Farid mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic: unique, singular; noted as the name of an Egyptian singer and popular in East Africa. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Farid a male or female name?
- Farid 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 Farid?
- In the etymology graph, Ferit, Ferid and Fərid are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Farid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Farid in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farid.
- How common is the name Farid?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,683 people named Farid, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Farid compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Farid is the 31st most common given name of 27,215 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/faridThe 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, “Farid” — the 31st most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.