Farhiya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: joyful
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists, 2023
/faɾhija/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Farhiya is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Somalia than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 38K
- DKDenmark1 in 101K
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.
- Somalia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)joyful
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Farhiya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SO Somalia | #168 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 1 | Farhiya | 8 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Farhiya | 30 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Farhiya | 9 |
| US United States | — | 603 | 1 in 552K | 602 | Farhiya | 86 |
| SE Sweden | #660 | 268 | 1 in 38K | 282 | Farhiya | 21 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Farhiya | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 300 | Farhiya | 11 |
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); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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).
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 602 | #18,007 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 300 | #3,549 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 282 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 277 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 277 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 275 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 268 | #4,239 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 266 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 247 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 239 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 221 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 181 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Farhiya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Farhiya in Somalia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farhiya.
- What does the name Farhiya mean, and where does it come from?
- joyful Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Farhiya?
- In Swahili /faɾhija/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Farhiya a male or female name?
- Farhiya is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- How common is the name Farhiya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 603 people named Farhiya in 2020, about 1 in 552 thousand residents.
- How common is Farhiya compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Farhiya is the 168th most common given name of 718 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/farhiyaThe 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, “Farhiya” — the 168th most common given name in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.