Farida (Arabic: فريدة) is an Arabic feminine given name, meaning unique/ precious pearl. In Urdu it is spelled and pronounced the same way as Arabic. In Turkish it is spelled as Feride. In Persian, the name is rendered as Farideh (Persian: فریده) in the Iranian dialect, but Farida (Фарида) in the Afghan and Tajik dialects. It is one of the common female names throughout the Muslim world.^[1][2][3][4]

People

• Farida was a 9th-century Arabic musician and wife of al-Mutawakkīl.
• Farida of Egypt (1921–1988), Queen of Egypt
• Farida Azam (1937–1992), Pakistani politician's wife
• Farida Azizi, Afghan women's rights activist
• Farida Belghoul (born 1958), French-Algerian author
• Farida Diouri (1953–2004), Moroccan novelist
• Farida Haddouche (born 1959), Algerian politician
• Maria Farida Indrati, referred to as Farida (born 1949), Indonesian judge
• Farida Jalal (born 1949), Indian actress
• Farida Kant, Italian drag queen
• Farida Karodia (born 1942), South African novelist and short-story writer
• Farida Khanum (born 1935), Pakistani Ghazal singer from Punjab
• Farida Khanam (scholar) (born 1952), Indian Islamic scholar
• Farida Mammadova (1936–2021), Azerbaijani historian
• Farida Mohammad Ali (born 1963), Iraqi singer
• Farida Nekzad, Afghan journalist
• Farida Osman (born 1995), Egyptian-American swimmer
• Farida Parveen (born 1954), Bangladeshi singer
• Farida Waller (born 1993), Thai actress and model
• Farida Waziri (born 1946), Nigerian technocrat, law enforcement officer
• Feride Hilal Akın (born 1996), Turkish singer
• Farideh Heyat (born 1949), British-Iranian anthropologist
• Farideh Lashai (1944-2013), Iranian painter
• Farideh Moradkhani, Iranian engineer, human rights activist
• Farideh Hashemi (born 1939), Iranian politician