Given name & surname · also Arabic
Faraj
“one who offers remedies”
Faraj is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who offers remedies.”
Original Arabicفرج
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who offers remedies.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
How it developed
From Arabic فَرَج (“relief, respite, salvation”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Faraj through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40
- 40 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 281 as a first name in 2020; 1,515 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Faraj’s family of names
Faraj has a related form in Farag. In Arabic usage, Faraj is a Roman-alphabet rendering of فرج. In English usage, Faraj as a surname has a related form in FARRAJ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Faraj
- Farag FodaEgyptian writer, professor, and human rights activist (1945–1992)
- Abu Said Farajgranadan prince1248–1320
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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