Faruk

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Faruk is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: one who distinguishes right from wrong; title of Umar.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 796◐
  • SYSyria1 in 9.9K
  • NGNigeria1 in 41K

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

≈4.7K ●

across 13 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
141 ●

679K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.8K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

FarukLatin · Turkish●688K records
ΦαρούκGreek · Greek●1 records
파루크Hangul · Korean●0 records

Locally spelled Farrukh in KR South Korea.

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●

one who distinguishes right from wrong; title of Umar

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 Faruk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#117678,918664K rec.——Faruk136
IN India—5,2771.5K rec.—368Faruk44
SY Syria—3,3503.4K rec.——Faruk5
FR France—1,8600 rec.1 in 36K1.9K—1
NG Nigeria—1,7711.5K rec.—listedFaruk34
GB United Kingdom—1,031358 rec.—listedFaruk58
US United States—9012K rec.1 in 369K2.9KFaruk141
BE Belgium—599604 rec.—33Faruk27
SE Sweden—529△173 rec.1 in 19K529—24
CY Cyprus#588469601 rec.——Faruk17
ES Spain—453420 rec.1 in 110K779Faruk22
MY Malaysia—267508 rec.——Faruk17

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

Languages●

  • Turkish688K58%
  • Bangla162K14%
  • English122K10%
  • Hindi81K7%
  • 50K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish688,40258%
Bangla162,06814%
English122,07410%
Hindi81,3437%
49,7224%

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◐

Faruk is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name578K records spelled Faruk141 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, English

    Also written Farooq, Faruque, Faruq, Farook, ফারুক

  • English given name409K records spelled Faruk13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, Germany, India, Nigeria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written F'Aruk, Färük, Fâruk, Fāřůķ, Fàruķ

  • a separate given name68K records spelled Faruk3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States, Ethiopia

    Also written Farûk, Fārūḳ

  • Arabic given name22K records spelled Faruk2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Saudi Arabia, India, Türkiye

    Also written F'Aruk

  • Spanish given name8.3K records spelled Faruk7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Spain, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written F'Aruk, Fåruk, Faŕuk, Fárúk

  • French given name5.8K records spelled Faruk7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Fàrûk, Farük, Färuk, Fãrûk, Fàrùk

62 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●

Faruk 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.

  • In Turkish, 1. Haklıyı haksızdan ayıran, adaletli. 2. Keskin. 3. Hz. Ömer’in lakabı.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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●

05010015019401960198020002020118 · 1980

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Faruk in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1928–2025
Yearrecords
19281
19341
19384
19393
19404
19413
19427
19432
19447
19455
19463
194712
19484
194910
19504
19514
195211
19535
19546
19557
19566
19579
195811
19598
196012
196115
19627
196314
196413
196516
196615
196711
196818
196914
197016
197125
197239
197357
197454
197565
197668
1977100
1978112
1979108
1980118
1981112
198286
198385
198470
198577
198654
198759
198858
198942
199030
199121
199220
199321
199416
199522
199612
199712
19987
19997
20009
200111
20024
20032
20042
20052
20062
20071
20085
20092
20111
20121
20134
20142
20151
20162
20176
20192
20202
20221
20241
20251

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 86 years between 1928–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Ömer Faruk Efendi, b. 1898Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, b. 1898Farouk Abu Issa, b. 1933Ömer Faruk Tekbilek, b. 1951Faruk Hadžibegić, b. 1957Faruk İremet, b. 1965Faruk Yiğit, b. 1968Faruk Ihtijarević, b. 1976Ömer Faruk Yurtseven, b. 1998Ömer Faruk Beyaz, b. 2003

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 71 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Faruk
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.9K#391
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020683#16,474
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—529#2,659
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—368#11,556
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020344—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020324#66,015
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—304#3,512
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—225#5,097
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—178#9,883
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010164#108,199
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026158#616
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—147#4,119

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 421 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Faruk?
We estimate roughly 4.7 thousand people bear Faruk (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Faruk have the most bearers?
Faruk is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled faruk.
How common is Faruk compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Faruk is the 117th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Faruk a male or female name?
Faruk 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 Faruk mean?
Recorded meaning: one who distinguishes right from wrong; title of Umar
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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, “Faruk” — the 117th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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