Pharah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FAR-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Pharah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “joy, happiness”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Pharah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Farah
“joy, happiness”
Pharah is the call sign of Fareeha Amari, an Egyptian heroine in the video game Overwatch.
Is Pharah a girl's or a boy's name?
Pharah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Pharah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 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, 6 girls in the US were named Pharah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Pharah in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 180 girls in the US were given Pharah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,129, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Pharah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
Names like Pharah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Sariyah Safa Hadassah Selah Aaliyah Sama Farah Salem Zainab Raha Layan
Other spellings of Pharah
Names related to Pharah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
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, “Pharah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/pharah, updated 20 October 2026.