Fajar
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FAJ-ar
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #698 for girls
Fajar is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “dawn”. In 2025 it ranked 698th for girls in the UK (58 babies).
What does Fajar mean?
Arabic: spelling of Arabic fajr
“dawn”
Fajr is the dawn prayer, first of the five daily prayers in Islam; Surah al-Fajr is the Qur'an's 89th chapter.
Is Fajar a girl's or a boy's name?
Fajar is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 58 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fajar in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 698th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 58 about 1 in 4,800 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 338% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 58 girls in the UK were named Fajar, making it the 698th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th.
2025 had the most girls named Fajar of any year since the records began in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Fajar in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 100 girls in the UK were given Fajar or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #441, up from #698 for this spelling alone.
- Fajar 58
- Fajr 42
Among girls in 2025, it was 705th in England and Wales and 474th in Scotland.
Fajar in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #698 |
| 2024 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2023 | 16 | #1,873 |
| 2022 | 17 | #1,794 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 14 | #2,099 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | 10 | #2,618 |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 10 | #2,666 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 2 | #5,792 |
| 2002 | 7 | #2,436 |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,587 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 1 | #5,110 |
| 1996 | 1 | #5,054 |
Names like Fajar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Ayah, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Nusaybah, Aaliyah, Safaa, Abeeha, Ruqayyah, Huda
Other spellings of Fajar
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Fajar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fajar, updated 20 October 2026.