Firdaws
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- fir-DOWS
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Firdaws is a girls' name of Persian origin, meaning “paradise, garden”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Firdaws mean?
Persian: Arabic firdaws, from Old Persian pairidaeza 'walled garden'
“paradise, garden”
In Islam, al-Firdaws is the highest garden of Paradise; the word shares its Persian root with English paradise.
Is Firdaws a girl's or a boy's name?
Firdaws is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Firdaws in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 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, 3 girls in the UK were named Firdaws, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 7 girls.
Half of all the girls named Firdaws in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were given Firdaws or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,686, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Firdaws in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 1 | #7,491 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 4 | #3,310 |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
Names like Firdaws
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Iqra, Faiza, Yasmin, Ffion, Yasmine, Niamh, Jasmine, Farah, Fatma, Ellie, Molly, Hannah
Other spellings of Firdaws
Firdaus, Firdous
More Persian names
Jasper, Esther, Casper, Cyrus, Darius, Zorawar, Kiyan, Rumi, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman, Armaan, Jazmin, Miran
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, “Firdaws: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/firdaws, updated 20 October 2026.