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Faridah name meaning

“unique, matchless”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
F
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1960s: 12.1%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s12.1%
1970s8.9%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
6

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Faridah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: FArabic origin

Faridah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'unique' or 'matchless'.

What does Faridah mean?

Unique, matchless

In Malay: unik; tiada tolok bandingnya

Sources (2)

About the name Faridah

Faridah is the feminine form of Arabic farid, meaning single, unique or matchless. According to JPN it peaked in the 1960s with 8,061 baby girls. Farida and Fareedah are also used.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesFa-ri-dah
First letterMalay Names starting with F
Arabic scriptفريدة

Faridah in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 8,061 · 12.1%
1970s
Girl: 4,511 · 8.9%
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Faridah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Faridah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: فريدة · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: فريد · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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