Faranak
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɑɹænək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Faranak is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Persian فرانک.
- IRIran≈1 in 152K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 786K
- SESweden1 in 109K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From Persian فرانک.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faranak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Faranak | 3 |
| IR Iran | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Faranak | 39 |
| US United States | 423 | 1 in 786K | 421 | Faranak | 135 |
| EG Egypt | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 660K | — | Faranak | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 649K | — | Faranak | 34 |
| SE Sweden | 94 | 1 in 109K | 94 | Faranak | 12 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Faranak | 17 |
| AT Austria | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Faranak | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 31 | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Faranak Margoleseb. 1972USwriter
- Faranak Heidarian Dehkordib. 1981NLPh.D. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen 2012
- Faranak Parto Azarb. 1988IRIranian mountain biker
- Faranak MiraftabUSAmerican urbanist
- Faranak FarzanCAresearcher
- Faranak ManteghiIRresearcher
- Faranak SharifiIRresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 421 | #23,227 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 94 | #8,921 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 79 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 78 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 75 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 70 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 68 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 68 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 67 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 67 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 66 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Faranak mean, and where does it come from?
- From Persian فرانک. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Faranak?
- A machine transcription gives /fɑɹænək/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Faranak a male or female name?
- Faranak 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 Faranak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Faranak in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faranak.
- Where is Faranak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Faranak is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 109 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Faranak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 423 people named Faranak in 2020, about 1 in 786 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Faranak?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faranakThe 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, “Faranak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.