The Farah surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 3,934 people carried this name — #7,792 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 68,500 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
234 people named Farah live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 177 people named Farah live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 172 people named Farah.
Most of them — 122 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Farah in American newspapers,
1891–1961.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 6,057 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Farah,
with a public archive behind them.
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Nuruddin Farah 1945– · writer -
Hassan Abshir Farah 1945–2020 · politician -
Rachad Ahmed Saleh Farah 1950– · politician -
Joseph Farah 1954– · writer -
Douglas Farah 1957– · journalist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 74 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Farah.
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