Given name & surname
Ferid
Ferid is a given name from Arabic. It is used in German.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ferid through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 5 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 1990. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 236 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ferid’s family of names
In German usage, Ferid has a related form in Farid. In German usage, Ferid has a related form in FERIT. In Ottoman Turkish usage, Ferid is a Roman-alphabet rendering of فرید.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Ferid
- Ferid MuradAmerican physician and pharmacologist (1936–2023)
- Férid BoughedirTunisian film director and screenwriterborn 1944
- Ferid ChouchaneTunisian association football playerborn 1973
- Ferid VokopolaAlbanian politician1887–1969
- Ferid DžanićSS officer1918–1943
- Ferid MuhićMacedonian philosopherborn 1944
- Ferid RragamiAlbanian association football playerborn 1957
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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