Fareeha
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- fa-REE-ha
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
Fareeha is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “happy, joyful”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).
What does Fareeha mean?
Arabic: spelling of Fariha
“happy, joyful”
Spelling of Fariha, from the same Arabic root as Farah, joy, used mainly in South Asian Muslim families.
Is Fareeha a girl's or a boy's name?
Fareeha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fareeha in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,344among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 18% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Fareeha, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,864th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 20 girls.
2025 had more girls named Fareeha than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Fareeha in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 30 girls in the UK were given Fareeha or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,037, up from #2,344 for this spelling alone.
- Fariha 18
- Fareeha 12
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Fareeha in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 16 | #1,864 |
| 2019 | 10 | #2,590 |
| 2018 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2017 | 18 | #1,763 |
| 2016 | 20 | #1,653 |
| 2015 | 11 | #2,458 |
| 2014 | 17 | #1,810 |
| 2013 | 15 | #1,964 |
| 2012 | 19 | #1,681 |
| 2011 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 2010 | 16 | #1,829 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 10 | #2,354 |
| 2006 | 12 | #1,987 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 6 | #2,559 |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
How popular is Fareeha in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Fareeha in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fareeha in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
Names like Fareeha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Abeeha Hiba Aaliyah Zainab Rahma Safiya Sumayyah Fatiha Ruqayyah Nusaybah
Other spellings of Fareeha
Names related to Fareeha
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, “Fareeha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fareeha, updated 20 October 2026.