Fadhel

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Fadhel is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Bahrain it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: outstanding.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 446K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 2.8M
  • BHBahrain1 in 684

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈184 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
119 ●

7.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 66K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

outstanding

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Fadhel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—1,1821.8K rec.—15Fadhel119
US United States—1,1122.2K rec.—475Fadhel70
TN Tunisia#417633868 rec.——Fadhel40
BH Bahrain#17609276 rec.——Fadhel44
IQ Iraq—472512 rec.—1Fadhel21
SA Saudi Arabia—374287 rec.——Fadhel59
KW Kuwait#702178178 rec.——Fadhel26
SE Sweden—155193 rec.1 in 66K155—15
TR Türkiye—151225 rec.——Fadhel10
AE United Arab Emirates—125164 rec.——Fadhel42
GB United Kingdom—113167 rec.——Fadhel22
YE Yemen#94188148 rec.——Fadhel25

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic3.2K41%
  • French1.3K17%
  • Indonesian1.2K16%
  • English6949%
  • Turkish1272%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic3,16441%
French1,30317%
Indonesian1,21616%
English6949%
Turkish1272%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Fadhel is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name1.7K records spelled Fadhel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Iraq, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Fadhel, Fâdhêl

  • Spanish given name508 records spelled Fadhel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Tunisia, Iraq

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fàdhel, Fádhêl

  • Urdu given name71 records spelled Fadhel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Fádhêl

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02040602000200520102015202042 · 2018

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Fadhel in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199918
200021
200125
200227
200328
200428
200529
200632
200736
200839
200940
201040
201140
201240
201340
201438
201538
201639
201741
201842
201942
202042

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940195019601970Fadhil al-Milani, b. 1944Fadhel Jaïbi, b. 1945Fadhel Jaziri, b. 1948Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari, b. 1966

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Fadhel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020475#48,050
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010164#108,199
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—155#6,313
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—66#10,041
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202042—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201942—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201842—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—41#9,759
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201741—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201340—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201240—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201140—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fadhel?
We estimate roughly 184 people bear Fadhel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Fadhel have the most bearers?
Fadhel is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled fadhel.
How common is Fadhel compared with other names?
In Bahrain, Fadhel is the 17th most common given name of 2,246 given names recorded there.
Is Fadhel a male or female name?
Fadhel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Fadhel mean?
Recorded meaning: outstanding
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fadhel” — the 17th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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