All around the world, Faruku (Faruku 
) is a common predominantly masculine, but very infrequently girly first name. The first name Faruku is characteristic of Nigeria, where it is quite a rare primarily boy's, but scarcely feminine name, Tanzania, where it is a rare male name, and India, where it is an extremely rare principally masculine, but very seldom feminine name. Also, Faruku is the last name as well as the forename.