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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Farah f for the female version.
Latin spelling of the Arabic name فرح (Farah) meaning 'joy, happiness' [1] [2]
Farah | ♂ |
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Arabic |
Farah used as a male name is a name used among immigrants from Arabic-speaking countries, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[3] |
|
1201 | 2158 | 1005 | 1508 | 196 | 650 |
Denmark[4] |
|
322 | n.a. |
267 | n.a. |
55 | n.a. |
Finland[5] |
|
n.a. |
387 | n.a. |
255 | n.a. |
132 |
Iceland[6] |
|
4 | 4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[7] |
|
325 | n.a. |
255 | n.a. |
70 | n.a. |
Greenland[8] |
|
0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only | |||||||
&: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |