Faizal
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Faizal is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and Indonesian, written in the Latin script.
- MYMalaysia1 in 1.4K◐
- IDIndonesia1 in 5.5K
- PHPhilippines1 in 88K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈322 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 137 ●
- 1 in 16K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
42K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #57 | 47,941 | 28K rec. | — | — | Faizal | 95 |
| ID Indonesia | #458 | 16,643 | 5.3K rec. | — | — | Faizal | 137 |
| IN India | — | 5,439 | 3.8K rec. | — | 134 | Faizal | 86 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,910 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Faizal | 19 |
| SG Singapore | #622 | 801 | 847 rec. | — | — | Faizal | 36 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #701 | 576 | 431 rec. | — | — | Faizal | 50 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 514 | 182 rec. | — | — | Faizal | 32 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 330 | 9 rec. | — | — | Faizal | 11 |
| US United States | — | 199 | 736 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 199 | Faizal | 74 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 196 | 117 rec. | — | — | Faizal | 31 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 144 | 126 rec. | — | — | Faizal | 15 |
| TH Thailand | — | 136 | 117 rec. | — | — | Faizal | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay36K30%
- Indonesian34K29%
- Hindi21K18%
- English11K9%
- Arabic2.2K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 36,083 | 30% |
| Indonesian | 34,227 | 29% |
| Hindi | 21,143 | 18% |
| English | 11,240 | 9% |
| Arabic | 2,181 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 2 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1942 | 3 |
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1948 | 1 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1951 | 2 |
| 1952 | 2 |
| 1953 | 1 |
| 1954 | 2 |
| 1955 | 4 |
| 1956 | 1 |
| 1957 | 2 |
| 1958 | 1 |
| 1959 | 8 |
| 1960 | 4 |
| 1961 | 3 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1964 | 2 |
| 1965 | 3 |
| 1966 | 1 |
| 1967 | 6 |
| 1968 | 10 |
| 1969 | 4 |
| 1970 | 3 |
| 1971 | 11 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 12 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 13 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 18 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 19 |
| 1981 | 17 |
| 1982 | 28 |
| 1983 | 33 |
| 1984 | 38 |
| 1985 | 28 |
| 1986 | 35 |
| 1987 | 43 |
| 1988 | 49 |
| 1989 | 48 |
| 1990 | 59 |
| 1991 | 69 |
| 1992 | 79 |
| 1993 | 107 |
| 1994 | 139 |
| 1995 | 132 |
| 1996 | 84 |
| 1997 | 52 |
| 1998 | 53 |
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 67 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●
- Faizal Rahmanb. 1988IDIndonesian badminton player
- Faizal Abdoelgafoerb. 1989SRSurinamese government minister
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 · 118 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Faizal?
- We estimate roughly 322 people bear Faizal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Faizal have the most bearers?
- Faizal is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled faizal.
- How common is Faizal compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Faizal is the 57th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Faizal a male or female name?
- Faizal 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.
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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.
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, “Faizal” — the 57th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.