Given name & surname
Farha
“filled with happiness”
Farha is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “filled with happiness.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “filled with happiness.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
How it developed
From Arabic فَرْحَة (farḥa, “delight, pleasure”); its root is Arabic ف ر ح.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Farha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 164
- 0 boys · 164 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,758 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +24%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,758 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 571 as a first name in 2020; 697 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.
Farha’s family of names
Farha has a related form in Farhad. Farha has a related form in Farhan. Farha has a related form in Farhat.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Farhanvariant
- Farhadvariant
- Farhatvariant
- Farrhalikely variant
- Farhaneevariant
- Farhaneyvariant
- Farhanyvariant
- Farhanievariant
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