Farida
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim: 'precious pearl', 'only one', 'unique' (African Names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 49 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/farˈida/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Farida is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 63rd most common given name. Farida is also written Фарида in Cyrillic, รดา in Thai and 라다 in Korean (Hangul).
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 430(inferred from the name graph)
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 610
- TZTanzania≈1 in 680
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Farida itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #684 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 430 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800,000 named Radha, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Farida in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Thai and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Faridah in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, Frida in NO Norway, SE Sweden, Фарида in KG Kyrgyzstan, TJ Tajikistan and Radha in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Farida
- Indonesian:/farˈida/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Muslim: 'precious pearl', 'only one', 'unique'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Farida counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #108 | ≈1,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 809 | 147K | Radha | 223 |
| TZ Tanzania | #346 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 676 | 1 | Farida | 24 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | listed | Faridah | 101 |
| BD Bangladesh | #141 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Farida | 55 |
| EG Egypt | #397 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Farida | 95 |
| SE Sweden | — | 30,990as Frida | 1 in 329 | 31K | Frida | 23 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #105 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 430 | 3 | Farida | 45 |
| MY Malaysia | #63 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 8.1K | Faridah | 74 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #202 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 611 | listed | Фарида | 8 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #125 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 602 | — | Фарида | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 9,435as Frida | 1 in 579 | 33K | Frida | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Farida is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, unique, matchless, singular, precious; feminine of Farid
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Swedish, Farida är en femininform till → Farid. Feride är en turkisk form.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, unique, matchless; fem. of Farid
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
precious pearl, only one, unique.
as a nameAfrican Names
In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Farida of Egyptb. 1921EGEgyptian queen consort (1921–1988)
- Farida Jalalb. 1950INIndian actress
- Bobitab. 1953BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi film actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)83 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 49 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Farida mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim: 'precious pearl', 'only one', 'unique'. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Farida?
- In Indonesian /farˈida/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Farida a male or female name?
- Farida is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Farida?
- In the etymology graph, Feride is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Farida?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Radha in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Tanzania, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Egypt; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Farida?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 30,990 people named Frida, about 1 in 329 residents.
- How common is Farida compared with other names?
- In India, Farida is the 108th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faridaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Farida” — ranked 142nd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.