Faren

given name · Latin script

Meaning: third-person plural future subjunctive of far

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Faren is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 734K(measured from records)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 323K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 464K

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.

United States (measured from records)

453 people, 2020

Sources
155 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 323K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

third-person plural future subjunctive of far

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Faren 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.

Where Faren is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4531 in 734K363Faren155
ZA South Africa≈180 est.≈1 in 323K—Faren10
DZ Algeria≈93 est.≈1 in 464K—Faren1
CA Canada≈62 est.≈1 in 605K—Faren33
PH Philippines≈34 est.≈1 in 3.2M—Faren13
NZ New Zealand≈6 est.≈1 in 870K—Faren8

453 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Faren is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, Honduras

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fareñ, Färën, Färëñ

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Malaysia

    Also written Farèn

41 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(measured from records)

Faren 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.

  • In Turkish, second-person singular possessive singular of fare

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of fare

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, definite singular of far

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, past participle of faran

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, past participle of fara

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Faren
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010126#133,863
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000108#141,788
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Faren mean, and where does it come from?
third-person plural future subjunctive of far Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Faren a male or female name?
Faren is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Faren have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 453 people named Faren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faren.
How common is the name Faren?
In the United States, the national register counted 453 people named Faren in 2020, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.

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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, “Faren”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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