Entry № 3255 · Arabic origin

Farrah Farrah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FAIR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Joy (Farrah Fawcett, Charlie's Angels icon)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "joy (farrah fawcett, charlie's angels icon)".

Farrah is from the Arabic farraḥ (فرَّحَ, "joy, gladness") — also a 20th-century English variant of Farah. 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. Farah Diba — last Empress of Iran.

Subject of countless 1970s pop-culture retrospectives.

Joy (Farrah Fawcett, Charlie's Angels icon) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

فَرَح
Transliteration
Faraḥ
Pronunciation
/ ˈfær.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Farrah stands.

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.

Farrahs before her.

Real people
Farrah Fawcett
American Charlie's Angels icon.
1947 – 2009
In fiction
Jill Munroe
Charlie's Angels.
1976

Names connected to Farrah.

The number behind Farrah.

7

The Seeker

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.