Firdous
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- fir-DOWS
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Firdous 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 Firdous mean?
Persian: Urdu form of Arabic firdaws, from Old Persian pairidaeza
“paradise, garden”
Urdu spelling of Firdaws, the highest garden of Paradise in Islam; the word shares its root with English paradise.
Is Firdous a girl's or a boy's name?
Firdous 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 Firdous in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Firdous, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 7 girls.
Half of all the girls named Firdous in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were given Firdous 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.
Firdous in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 1 | #5,353 |
Names like Firdous
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Aaliyah Zainab Hafsa Ayra Summer Ayah Hiba Maya Freya Huda Lara
Other spellings of Firdous
Firdaus Firdaws
More Persian names
Jasper Esther Jasmine Casper Cyrus Yasmin Darius Zorawar Kiyan Rumi Yasmine Kasper Mahnoor Dario Arian Arman
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, “Firdous: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/firdous, updated 20 October 2026.