Farah comes from an Arabic and Persian word meaning joy, happiness and gladness — a name that simply wishes delight on the child who wears it. Its bright, open sound matches its cheerful meaning.
It was borne with great grace by Empress Farah of Iran, and is loved across the Middle East and beyond.
For a sunny, glad-hearted girl, Farah is happiness itself.
Farah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Farah reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.