Faysal
given name · Bangla · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Faysal is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh. In Saudi Arabia it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. Keskin kılıç. 2. Hâkim.
- 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●
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Faisal in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 21 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●
1. Keskin kılıç. 2. Hâkim. 3. Kesin hüküm, karar.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 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●
- Bangla80K34%
- English79K34%
- Turkish43K18%
- Arabic15K6%
- French4.7K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bangla | 79,872 | 34% |
| English | 79,495 | 34% |
| Turkish | 43,025 | 18% |
| Arabic | 14,506 | 6% |
| French | 4,696 | 2% |
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●
Faysal 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 Arabic, umpire, arbitrator, sword. King of Oman (1888-1913); king of Saudi Arabia (ruled 1964-75). See Hakam aSa, umpire
as a nameA Dictionary of 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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 16 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 1993–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Faysal bin Sa'ud Al Sa'udb. 1926SASaudi Arabian politician
- Faisal al-Shaabib. 1935YEnot in their usual namePrime Minister of South Yemen
- Faysal Ben Ahmedb. 1973TNTunisian association football player
- Faysal Sarıyıldızb. 1975TRTurkish statesperson of Kurdish ancestry (born 1975)
- Faysal El Idrissib. 1977FRFrench and Moroccan footballer
- Faysal Soysalb. 1979TRTurkish film director (born 1979)
- Faysal Ahmedb. 1985SOsomali–American actor
- Faysal Shayestehb. 1991AFAfghan footballer
- Faysal Mobahritzb. 1994Danish actor
- Faysal Sawadogob. 1996BFBurkinabe taekwondo practitioner
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 43 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 519 | #19,898 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 361 | #3,463 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2017 | 345 | #2,560 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 345 | #5,936 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 316 | #2,171 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 298 | #4,347 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 268 | #3,331 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 198 | #4,810 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 172 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 171 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 168 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 156 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 · 102 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Faysal?
- We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Faysal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Faysal have the most bearers?
- Faysal is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled faysal.
- How common is Faysal compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Faysal is the 186th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Faysal a male or female name?
- Faysal 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 Faysal mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Keskin kılıç. 2. Hâkim.
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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, “Faysal” — the 186th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.