Fazal

given name · Urdu · Latin script

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

Fazal is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic فَضْل (faḍl, “grace, blessing”). This surname is mostly found in Afghanistan.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 1.9K◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 61K
  • INIndia1 in 68K

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

≈1.1K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
178 ●

45K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.2K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

FazalLatin · Urdu●107K records
ফজলBengali · Bangla●179 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Fazlu in SG Singapore.

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●

Borrowed from Arabic فَضْل (faḍl, “grace, blessing”). This surname is mostly found in Afghanistan.

Sources 2

  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Fazal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#39100,4644.6K rec.—1Fazal96
IN India—47,83822K rec.—141Fazal95
GB United Kingdom—2,4332.3K rec.——Fazal93
MY Malaysia—1,072675 rec.——Fazal22
BD Bangladesh—702791 rec.—listedFazal42
US United States—68111K rec.1 in 488K734Fazal178
CA Canada—476898 rec.——Fazal64
AU Australia—419755 rec.—1Fazal48
ID Indonesia—380147 rec.——Fazal39
GY Guyana#273233299 rec.1 in 3.2K233Fazal3
DE Germany—189269 rec.——Fazal46
AF Afghanistan#860179286 rec.—1Fazal21

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

Languages●

  • Urdu107K57%
  • Hindi27K14%
  • 14K7%
  • English13K7%
  • Arabic7.5K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu107,31557%
Hindi26,67114%
14,1887%
English12,5297%
Arabic7,5494%

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◐

Fazal is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name18K records spelled Fazal3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Faz̤al, Faẓal

  • Pashto given name3.8K records spelled Fazal2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, United States

    Also written Faẓal

  • French given name3.0K records spelled Fazal4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Pakistan, India, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Fâzāl, Fäzãl

  • Turkish given name656 records spelled Fazal3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Fàzãl

45 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.

Over time●

010020030019201940196019802000206 · 1984

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Fazal in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1917–2015
Yearrecords
19171
19181
19194
19213
19223
19233
19246
19256
19262
19278
19288
192916
193010
193118
193223
19335
193419
193520
193618
193726
193829
193933
194033
194134
194264
194339
194474
194554
194651
194784
194853
194971
195052
195166
195278
195360
195491
195570
195686
195789
195885
1959144
1960101
1961113
1962144
196396
1964127
196598
1966118
1967144
1968124
1969111
1970129
1971125
1972122
1973112
1974127
1975118
1976148
1977125
1978120
1979124
1980115
1981162
1982149
1983164
1984206
1985169
1986135
1987151
1988148
1989126
1990157
1991161
1992161
1993165
1994154
1995134
199662
199762
199852
19995
20011
20071
200816
20093
20109
20113
20122
20135
201425
201510

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Haji Sahib of Turangzai, b. 1858Fazal Ilahi Wazirabadi, b. 1882Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, b. 1904F. A. Khan, b. 1910Fazal Haq, b. 1945Fazal Sheikh, b. 1965Fazal Ghafoor, 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 49 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Fazal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—2.4K#1,772
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020734#33,419
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020681#16,275
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010628#35,764
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000349#55,124
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025233#366
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—232#1,650
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—196#16,851
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—196#16,792
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—141#22,525
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—92#16,516
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—87#17,663

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 272 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fazal?
We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Fazal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Fazal have the most bearers?
Fazal is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled fazal.
How common is Fazal compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Fazal is the 39th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
Is Fazal a male or female name?
Fazal 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 Fazal mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic فَضْل (faḍl, “grace, blessing”). This surname is mostly found in Afghanistan.
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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, “Fazal” — the 39th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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