Fun Facts About the Name Fares
- More than 1 thousand babies named Fares: U.S. records list 1,063 babies given the name Fares from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Fares Mean?
Fares is an Arabic masculine given name meaning knight or horseman. It comes from the Arabic noun fāris (فَارِس), which is formed from the root f-r-s, the same root that gives faras (فَرَس), horse. In classical and modern Arabic, fāris can mean a mounted warrior, a knight, or a cavalier, and its plural fursān (فُرْسَان) means knights or horsemen. The same unvocalized spelling Fāris can also mean Persian or Persia in Arabic, but the personal name is normally understood in the horseman or knight sense rather than the geographic one.
Fares is one of several Latin-alphabet spellings of this Arabic name; Faris and Fāris are also used. The e in Fares is a transliteration choice, not evidence of a different origin. The similar-looking biblical name Phares (Greek Φαρές, from Hebrew Peretz) is a separate name, and its meaning, breach or breakthrough, does not apply to the Arabic Fares.
Fares Name History & Origins
In classical Arabic, fāris means a mounted warrior or knight, and the plural fursān is used for cavalry or a company of knights. As a personal name, Fares belongs to the broad Arabic practice of naming children after nouns and adjectives rather than only after religious figures. Because the name is not tied to a prophet or to a specifically Islamic story, it is used by Arabic-speaking Muslims, Christians, and others in the Middle East.
Fares is found in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula, and it has traveled with Arabic-speaking emigrants to Europe, North America, and Latin America. In Latin-alphabet records, the spellings Faris, Fares, and Fāris have been used for the same name; Fares is one of the spellings used in Lebanese and Syrian transliteration. The name also serves as a surname, as in the Lebanese-Swedish actor Fares Fares.
How Popular is the Name Fares?
Fares has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2012. Its best rank was #2,460 in 2012.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,689 | 48 | 0.0028% |
| 2024 | #2,834 | 45 | 0.0026% |
| 2023 | #2,853 | 44 | 0.0026% |
| 2022 | #2,838 | 45 | 0.0026% |
| 2021 | #3,037 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 2020 | #2,897 | 41 | 0.0024% |
| 2019 | #2,909 | 42 | 0.0023% |
| 2018 | #2,912 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 2017 | #2,909 | 41 | 0.0022% |
| 2016 | #2,946 | 40 | 0.0021% |
| 2015 | #2,820 | 42 | 0.0022% |
| 2014 | #2,521 | 49 | 0.0026% |
| 2013 | #2,729 | 43 | 0.0023% |
| 2012 | #2,460 | 51 | 0.0027% |
| 2011 | #3,263 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 2010 | #3,036 | 38 | 0.0020% |
| 2009 | #3,504 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2008 | #3,675 | 29 | 0.0014% |
| 2007 | #3,151 | 36 | 0.0017% |
| 2006 | #8,223 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #3,340 | 30 | 0.0015% |
| 2004 | #4,470 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2003 | #3,013 | 32 | 0.0016% |
| 2002 | #4,086 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 2001 | #3,755 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 2000 | #5,122 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1999 | #4,211 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 1998 | #4,482 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1997 | #7,548 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1996 | #4,454 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1995 | #5,256 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1994 | #7,218 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1993 | #7,052 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1992 | #4,998 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1991 | #5,658 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 1990 | #7,466 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #6,190 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1983 | #6,585 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1982 | #6,678 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1981 | #5,736 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1978 | #5,295 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1976 | #5,884 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Fares Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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