Faridah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Faridah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 63rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Alternative form of fard (“Islamic commandment”).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 587as Farida
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 607as Farida
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 Faridah 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- #684 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 named Farida, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Фарида in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, UZ Uzbekistan, Farida in NG Nigeria, AZ Azerbaijan, TZ Tanzania and Frida in NO Norway, SE Sweden.
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)
Alternative form of fard (“Islamic commandment”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faridah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #346 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 754 | 1 | Farida | 24 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Faridah | 101 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #230 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 609 | listed | Фарида | 23 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | listed | Farida | 57 |
| RU Russia | #216 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | #137 | Фарида | 149 |
| SE Sweden | — | 30,990as Frida | 1 in 329 | 31K | Frida | 23 |
| MY Malaysia | #63 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 8.1K | Faridah | 74 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #105 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 587 | 3 | Farida | 45 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #125 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 607 | — | Фарида | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 9,435as Frida | 1 in 579 | 33K | Frida | 9 |
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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; the id-github-names register; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
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 nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Highly
as a nameDictionary 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34 | #17,740 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #15,166 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 27 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 20 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Faridah mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of fard (“Islamic commandment”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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.
- In which country does Faridah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Farida in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Faridah?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 30,990 people named Frida, about 1 in 329 residents.
- How common is Faridah compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Faridah is the 346th most common given name of 37,285 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/faridahThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Faridah” — the 346th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.