Fares
Just 69 men in Poland carry it, and most people here have never met one. The name comes from Hebrew and travels through Arabic too, meaning knight or horseman.
Fares Pronunciation
Fares is pronounced FAH-res (/ˈfarɛs/).
What Fares means
Where Fares comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fares belongs to two worlds. Its roots reach back to Hebrew, and its daily life runs through Arabic, where the word فارس, fāris, means a knight or a horseman. The short meaning stays close to that: rycerz, jeździec, a rider on horseback.
In Arabic the sense grew straight from the horse. Fāris links to the word for a fine mare, and from there it came to mean the man in the saddle, then the man of courage. The knight began as someone who could ride.
There are no diminutives here, no softened forms to reach for. Fares stands as one word. It travels widely as an Arabic given name, from Lebanon to the Maghreb. On a Polish class register it reads plainly, five letters. The name still means horseman.
How many people are named Fares
1 in 309365 men in Poland is named Fares. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4340 among male names.
Fares's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Fares as a middle name
Fares is a first name for 69 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2396th, between Fadi (15) and Gabryjel (15).
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#2394 Elmer15
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#2395 Fadi15
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#2396 Fares15
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#2397 Gabryjel15
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#2398 Gerhardus15