Feras
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- fi-RAHS
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Feras is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “perspicacity, keen insight”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Feras mean?
Arabic: variant of Firas
“perspicacity, keen insight”
Abu Firas al-Hamdani was a celebrated 10th-century Arab poet and warrior.
Is Feras a girl's or a boy's name?
Feras is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Feras in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Feras, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 1990, with 21 boys. It first appears in the records in 1976.
Half of all the boys named Feras in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Feras in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,620 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,670 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,692 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,807 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,708 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,081 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,928 |
| 2000 | 11 | #5,913 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,036 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,834 |
| 1997 | 12 | #4,954 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,390 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,922 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,366 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,809 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,414 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,468 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,946 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,745 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,233 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,327 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,398 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,105 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,904 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,281 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,599 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,097 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,567 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,552 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,933 |
Names like Feras
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brayden, Keegan, Brody, Aiden, Finn, Declan, Kayden, Lucas, Deacon, Finnegan, Logan, Kian
Names related to Feras
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from 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, “Feras: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/feras, updated 20 October 2026.