Farouk

given name · Arabic · Latin script

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

Farouk is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt. In Togo it is the 16th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: king, Egypt.

rarermore common
  • TNTunisia1 in 3.4K◐
  • DZAlgeria1 in 5.4K
  • EGEgypt1 in 6.6K

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

≈3.8K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
185 ●

53K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.8K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

king, Egypt

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Farouk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#7445,92814K rec.——Farouk136
DZ Algeria#1264,5145.3K rec.—listedFarouk65
NG Nigeria—3,4344.8K rec.—listedFarouk60
SY Syria—2,8803.1K rec.——Farouk38
FR France—1,860△10 rec.1 in 36K1.9K—4
GB United Kingdom—1,2571.1K rec.——Farouk82
ZA South Africa—1,2351.6K rec.——Farouk35
TN Tunisia#2871,1561K rec.——Farouk50
MA Morocco—1,0471.4K rec.—listedFarouk66
US United States—88311K rec.1 in 377K883Farouk185
TR Türkiye—763904 rec.——Farouk22
DE Germany—674836 rec.—2Farouk77

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

Languages●

  • Arabic23K30%
  • French22K29%
  • English10K13%
  • Spanish2.3K3%
  • Swahili1.4K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic22,83130%
French21,89829%
English10,01713%
Spanish2,3313%
Swahili1,3652%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name4.4K records spelled Farouk10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fãŕouk, Fárõúk, Fârôùk, Fârōük, Fāroūk

  • Turkish given name892 records spelled Farouk4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Algeria, Iraq

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Fâröúk, Fàrőŭk

  • Bangla given name415 records spelled Farouk141 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, English

    Also written Farooq, Faruk, Faruque, Faruq, Farook

56 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.

Other recorded senses●

Farouk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • judicious, epithet for Khalifa ‘Umar

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

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●

0510151980199020002010202014 · 2015

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Farouk in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1979–2025
Yearrecords
19797
19875
19895
19925
19945
19966
19975
19987
199910
20009
20029
20039
20047
200512
200610
20087
20099
20107
20119
201212
20139
201413
201514
201612
201714
20187
201911
20207
20218
20225
20237
202410
202510

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 33 years between 1979–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Farouk I of Egypt, b. 1920Farouk Kaddoumi, b. 1931Farouk al-Sharaa, b. 1938Farouk El-Baz, b. 1938Farouk Hosny, b. 1938Farouk Mardam-Bey, b. 1944Farouk El Okdah, b. 1946Farouk Ben Mustapha, b. 1989

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 64 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Farouk
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.9K#1,874
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020883#13,600
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—453#4,898
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—362#2,661
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—310#3,838
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020245#82,881
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010150#116,201
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—148#5,931
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020147—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—107#4,240
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—97#28,239
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—97#28,046

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 186 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Farouk?
We estimate roughly 3.8 thousand people bear Farouk (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Farouk have the most bearers?
Farouk is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled farouk.
How common is Farouk compared with other names?
In Egypt, Farouk is the 744th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
Is Farouk a male or female name?
Farouk 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 Farouk mean?
Recorded meaning: king, Egypt
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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, “Farouk” — the 744th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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