Faron
Faron is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 631st, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1956145 births
- Best rank
- #631in 1956
- Since 1952
- 2,463people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,411 boys have been named Faron in the United States since 1952, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 145 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1960s alone account for 30%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 52 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1956, its biggest year
Faron was the 631st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Faron
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dirkpeak 1954
- Markpeak 1960
- Jefferypeak 1962
- Kirkpeak 1962
- Martypeak 1962
- Jefforypeak 1967
- Kurtpeak 1964
- Jeffrypeak 1956
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.