Farid
An Arabic name meaning "unique, incomparable". In Poland it stays rare: around 370 men and boys carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Farid Pronunciation
Farid is pronounced FAH-reet (/ˈfarit/).
What Farid means
Where Farid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Farid comes from Arabic, where the word فarīd means unique and incomparable, the one that stands without an equal. In older usage it also named a solitary pearl, a gem so fine that jewellers left it unstrung rather than set it beside lesser stones. The short meaning, unique, jedyny w swoim rodzaju, grew straight out of that picture.
The name has a well documented bearer in Farid al-Din Attar, the Persian poet of the twelfth century who wrote The Conference of the Birds. His fame carried the name well past its Arabic home.
On a Polish class register today, Farid marks a boy whose family looks toward Arabic roots. It comes with no diminutive handed down beside it, no softened variant to write on the official form at the urząd. The name arrives whole. What it says stays close to the word: someone incomparable, jedyny w swoim rodzaju.
How many people are named Farid
1 in 57228 men in Poland is named Farid. 373 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1538 among male names.
Farid's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Farid as a middle name
Farid is a first name for 373 men in Poland and a middle name for another 47, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1114th, between Elijah (47) and Hoang (47).
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#1112 Dezydery47
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#1113 Elijah47
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#1114 Farid47
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#1115 Hoang47
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#1116 Hubertus47