Given name & surname
Farris
“one who is as strong as iron”
Farris is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who is as strong as iron.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who is as strong as iron.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1897. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Farris through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,538
- 2,991 boys · 547 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 72 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,334 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −16%
- Easing
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 73% boys.
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,334 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 9.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 56 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,701 as a first name in 2020; 28,047 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.
Farris’s family of names
Farris has a related form in Faris. Farris has a related form in Faris. Farris has a related form in Ferris.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Farisvariant
- Ferrisvariant
- Faricevariant
- Fariesvariant · English
- Ferysvariant
- Ferisvariant
- Ferrysvariant
- Farysvariant
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Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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