Given name · also Turkish
Feride
“the only, the unique”
Feride is a feminine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Feride goes back to Arabic فَرِيدة, meaning “the only, the unique.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Feride comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish فریده (Feride), from Arabic فَرِيدة (“the only, the unique”); its root is Arabic ف ر د.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2013. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Feride through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 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 girls is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 208 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.
Feride’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Feride
- Feride ÇetinTurkish actor (born 1980)
- Feride BakırTurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Feride AcarTurkish sociologist (born 1948)
- Feride Hilal AkınTurkish actor and singer-songwriter (born 1996)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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