Farah
Hebrew for "joy, happiness", also carried through Arabic naming. It stays rare in Poland: most people here have never met one, and the handful born in recent years is fading again.
Farah Pronunciation
Farah is pronounced FAH-rahkh (/ˈfarax/).
What Farah means
Where Farah comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Farah means joy. In Arabic the word farah (فرح) states happiness plainly, and the name belongs to a Semitic family whose Hebrew branch holds the same bright gladness. It has no diminutives and no separate masculine form. One word does the work.
The clearest documented bearer is Farah Pahlavi, born in Tehran in 1938, the last empress of Iran. She married the Shah in 1959 and reached front pages across Europe through the 1960s and 70s. The name kept its plain meaning while she moved through very public years.
On a Polish class register Farah still reads as arrival from elsewhere, an Arabic name among the Zuzannas and Piotrs. The spelling stays short and even. Four letters, one clear sense: joy, happiness.
How many people are named Farah
1 in 363610 women in Poland is named Farah. 64 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4564 among female names.
Farah's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Farah as a middle name
Farah is a first name for 64 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4093rd, between Faiza (4) and Faredin (4).
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