Farrah is from the Arabic farraḥ (فرَّحَ, "joy, gladness") — also a 20th-century English variant of Farah. A top-200 US baby name from 1976 to 1978 driven by Farrah Fawcett. Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009) — American actress and model; her 1976 red swimsuit poster sold 12 million copies — making it the best-selling poster of all time, eclipsing even Marilyn Monroe pin-ups. *Original cast member of Charlie's Angels (1976-1977) as Jill Munroe; appeared in only one season but became the defining icon of the show's run. Her windblown, layered hairstyle — "the Farrah" — was imitated by millions of women in the late 1970s and was on Time magazine's list of the 100 most iconic hairstyles. Emmy nomination for The Burning Bed (1984) about domestic violence. Died of cancer on June 25, 2009 — the same day as Michael Jackson, who eclipsed her obituary coverage. Farah Diba* — last Empress of Iran.
Subject of countless 1970s pop-culture retrospectives.
Farrah 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 Farrah reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.