Fareedah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- fuh-REE-dah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Fareedah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “unique, precious”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Fareedah mean?
Arabic: variant of Farida
“unique, precious”
In Arabic farida can also mean a rare, precious pearl.
Is Fareedah a girl's or a boy's name?
Fareedah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fareedah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,101among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 314% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Fareedah, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Fareedah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 11 girls in the UK were given Fareedah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,106, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Fareedah 8
- Fareeda 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Fareedah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 12 | #2,319 |
| 2011 | 11 | #2,393 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,695 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
How popular is Fareedah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Fareedah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2016, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1977.
2025 had more girls named Fareedah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Fareedah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fareedah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,750 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,647 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
Names like Fareedah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Safa Ruqayyah Aaliyah Sumayyah Abeeha Aaminah Umaymah Zainab Farah Aafiyah Umamah
Other spellings of Fareedah
Fareeda
Names related to Fareedah
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, “Fareedah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fareedah, updated 20 October 2026.