Falak
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FA-lak
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Falak is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “sky, celestial sphere”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Falak mean?
Arabic
“sky, celestial sphere”
Is Falak a girl's or a boy's name?
Falak is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Falak in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady much the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Falak, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 51 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Falak than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Falak in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were given Falak or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,459, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Falak 9
- Falaq 9
In 2024, 86% of the babies named Falak in the UK were girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Falak in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2023 | 15 | #1,955 |
| 2022 | 21 | #1,527 |
| 2021 | 16 | #1,882 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 13 | #2,157 |
| 2018 | 21 | #1,577 |
| 2017 | 23 | #1,497 |
| 2016 | 19 | #1,724 |
| 2015 | 28 | #1,276 |
| 2014 | 25 | #1,377 |
| 2013 | 36 | #1,065 |
| 2012 | 31 | #1,179 |
| 2011 | 36 | #1,039 |
| 2010 | 39 | #949 |
| 2009 | 51 | #770 |
| 2008 | 38 | #929 |
| 2007 | 31 | #1,026 |
| 2006 | 24 | #1,188 |
| 2005 | 15 | #1,608 |
| 2004 | 17 | #1,399 |
| 2003 | 8 | #2,320 |
| 2002 | 8 | #2,231 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 9 | #1,942 |
| 1999 | 7 | #2,295 |
| 1998 | 6 | #2,535 |
| 1997 | 7 | #2,281 |
| 1996 | 8 | #2,012 |
How popular is Falak in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Falak, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2021, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Falak in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Falak in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
Names like Falak
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Hafsa, Nusaybah, Ayah, Safaa, Rahma, Abeeha, Hiba, Aaliyah, Ruqayyah, Farah
Other spellings of Falak
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), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Falak: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/falak, updated 20 October 2026.