Farah (name)
Farah, or Farrah, is a feminine given name of Arabic and Persian, also used in several other cultures. It means happiness in Arabic. It gained popularity in the Anglosphere due to its association with the American celebrities Farrah Fawcett and Farrah Abraham ; the name Farrah ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United States between 1976 -1980, between 1987-1988, and again between 2010-2016.
Arabic
Farah is an Arabic female given name and sometimes male given name meaning "happiness, joy, gladness, gleefulness, joyful, joyfulness, merriment, rejoice"The name is based on the Arabic root ف ر ح, variants from the root are:
- Faruh/ Farouh - male given name
- Farhat/ Farhaat - male given name, the female form below is Farhah.
- Farhan/ Farhaan - male given name
- Afrah/ Afraah - female given name in the plural or superlative form
- Fariha/ Fareeha - female given name
- Farhah - female given name, the female form of Farhaat above
- Farhah/ Faarhah - gender-neutral form, uncommonly used
- Farah/ Faarah - gender-neutral form, uncommonly used
Persian
Farah, the same as the Arabic meaning as mentioned above.Farrah/ Khwarrah or '''Khvaraenah, in Avestan or Pahlavi meaning 'glory'. The Avestan or Pahlavi word-name used in Zoroastrian texts or name and is completely different from the Arabic.
People with the given name
Farah
- Farah (actress), Indian actress
- Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Turkish actress
- Farah Damji, British criminal
- Farah Fath, American actress
- Farah Guled, 3rd Grand Sultan of the Isaaq clan
- Farah Hussein, Egyptian gymnast
- Farah Ali Jama, Somali economist and politician
- Farah Jacquet, Belgian politician
- Farah Khan, Indian choreographer and director
- Farah Mendlesohn, British academic
- Farah Nur, warrior and poet of the Isaaq clan
- Farah Pahlavi, Iranian empress consort
- Farah Puteri Nahlia, Indonesian politician
- Farah Shah, Pakistani actress and host
Farrah
- Farrah Abraham, American television personality
- Farrah Fawcett, American actress
- Farrah Franklin, American singer
- Farrah Forke, American actress
- Farrah Hall, American sports sailor
- Farrah Moan, American drag queen and entertainer
- Farrah Yousef, Syrian singer
People with the surname
Farah
- Abdulrahim Abby Farah, Somali diplomat and politician
- Caesar E. Farah, American scholar and historian
- Cynthia Farah, American writer and photographer
- Elias Farah, Syrian writer and thinker
- Hassan Abshir Farah, Somali politician
- Joseph Farah, American journalist and writer
- Kenza Farah, French-Algerian singer
- Martha Farah, American psychologist
- Mo Farah, Somali-British track and field athlete
- Nuruddin Farah, Somali writer
- Robbie Farah, Australian rugby league footballer
- Robert Farah (tennis), Colombian tennis player
Farrah
- Abd'Elkader Farrah, Algerian painter and stage designer
- Georges Farrah, Canadian politician
- John Farrah, British grocer, confectioner, biologist and meteorologist
- Pat Farrah, American retail executive
- Saleh Ali Farrah, Tanzanian politician
- Shamek Farrah, American saxophone player
Fictional characters
- Farah, a character in the American television series Sleeper Cell, played by Sarah Shahi
- Farah Black, a character in the American television series Dirk Gently's Holistic [Detective Agency (TV series)|Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], played by Jade Eshete
- Farah, a character in the video game series Prince of Persia
- Farah Oersted, a character in the video game Tales of Eternia
- Fareeha Amari, known as Pharah, a character in the videogame Overwatch
- Farah Karim, a character in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), played by Claudia Doumit
- Amy Farrah Fowler, a character in the American television series The Big Bang Theory, played by Mayim Bialik
- Farah Dowling, a character in the reboot Netflix series Fate: The Winx Saga and connected works, played by Eve Best
- Farrah Maalik, a character from British soap opera ''Hollyoaks''