Faisal
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Faisal is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh. In Saudi Arabia it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Faisal (Faysal) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’person som separerar rätt från fel’.
- KWKuwait1 in 473◐
- SASaudi Arabia1 in 695
- QAQatar1 in 804
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.0K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 285 ●
- 1 in 8.6K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
354K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Faysal in BD Bangladesh, NL Netherlands, TR Türkiye and 2 more and ไพศาล in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Faisal (Faysal) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’person som separerar rätt från fel’. Det kan också betyda ’svärd’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #186 | 159,676 | 9.5K rec. | — | — | Faysal | 114 |
| IN India | — | 144,502 | 74K rec. | — | 520 | Faisal | 156 |
| TH Thailand | #254 | 80,005 | 56K rec. | — | #34,083 | ไพศาล | 116 |
| PK Pakistan | #70 | 68,657 | 15K rec. | — | listed | Faisal | 132 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #35 | 32,331 | 15K rec. | — | — | Faisal | 204 |
| ID Indonesia | #265 | 28,326 | 11K rec. | — | — | Faisal | 186 |
| MY Malaysia | #259 | 16,983 | 18K rec. | — | — | Faisal | 60 |
| GB United Kingdom | #900 | 15,536 | 9.4K rec. | — | 3 | Faisal | 134 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #48 | 6,186 | 5.9K rec. | — | — | Faisal | 163 |
| PH Philippines | — | 6,017 | 6.8K rec. | — | — | Faisal | 27 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 4,860 | 6.6K rec. | — | — | Faisal | 64 |
| US United States | — | 4,846 | 61K rec. | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Faisal | 285 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic90K19%
- Hindi81K17%
- Urdu79K17%
- Indonesian64K14%
- English50K11%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 89,987 | 19% |
| Hindi | 81,218 | 17% |
| Urdu | 78,682 | 17% |
| Indonesian | 64,181 | 14% |
| English | 50,290 | 11% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Faisal is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, umpire, arbitrator, decisive, sword, a judge
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, Saudi Arabian dynasty
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Arabic, arbitrator
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, ) Faysal; Feisal: männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. ^/ojsaf »Richter«, auch »scharfes Schwert«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Cultivador de habas; que pertenece a la familia Fabia
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 2 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1947 | 2 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 1 |
| 1951 | 1 |
| 1952 | 1 |
| 1953 | 1 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 3 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 2 |
| 1960 | 2 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 8 |
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1965 | 10 |
| 1966 | 22 |
| 1967 | 16 |
| 1968 | 39 |
| 1969 | 28 |
| 1970 | 49 |
| 1971 | 46 |
| 1972 | 59 |
| 1973 | 81 |
| 1974 | 113 |
| 1975 | 123 |
| 1976 | 203 |
| 1977 | 160 |
| 1978 | 166 |
| 1979 | 199 |
| 1980 | 222 |
| 1981 | 222 |
| 1982 | 353 |
| 1983 | 379 |
| 1984 | 463 |
| 1985 | 389 |
| 1986 | 374 |
| 1987 | 474 |
| 1988 | 537 |
| 1989 | 544 |
| 1990 | 566 |
| 1991 | 668 |
| 1992 | 860 |
| 1993 | 1,113 |
| 1994 | 958 |
| 1995 | 936 |
| 1996 | 477 |
| 1997 | 452 |
| 1998 | 296 |
| 1999 | 23 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2014 | 49 |
| 2015 | 43 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 65 years between 1920–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Faisal bin Turkib. 1864OMSultan of Muscat and Oman (1864-1913)
- Faisal I of Iraqb. 1885SA1st king of Hashemite Iraq from 1921 to 1933
- King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1906SAKing of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975
- Faisal II of Iraqb. 1935IQKing of Iraq from 4 April 1939 until 1958
- Faisal Husseinib. 1940PSPalestinian politician (1940–2001)
- Prince Feisal bin Al-Hussein of Jordanb. 1963JOnot in their usual nameJordanian prince
- Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1970SASaudi royal
- Abel Xavierb. 1972MZnot in their usual namePortuguese-Mozambican association football player
- Faisal Naseemb. 1973MVMaldivian politician and 7th Vice President of the Maldives
- Fejsal Mulićb. 1994RSnot in their usual nameSerbian footballer
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 89 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #4,000 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,220 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.2K | #1,501 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1K | #2,779 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 959 | #1,302 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 785 | #29,918 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 768 | #1,917 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 548 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 520 | #8,927 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 400 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 351 | #10,629 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 351 | #10,607 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 553 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Faisal?
- We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Faisal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Faisal have the most bearers?
- Faisal is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled faysal.
- How common is Faisal compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Faisal is the 186th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Faisal a male or female name?
- Faisal 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 Faisal mean?
- Recorded meaning: Faisal (Faysal) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’person som separerar rätt från fel’.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Faisal” — the 186th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.