Fahad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: panther; powerful
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɑhæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fahad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 7th most common given name.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 272(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 288
- OMOman≈1 in 386
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fahad itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 272 (inferred from the name graph)
≈320,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Farhad in US United States, AF Afghanistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
panther; powerful
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fahad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #186 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 733 | listed | Fahad | 128 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #21 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 272 | listed | Fahad | 213 |
| BD Bangladesh | #259 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Fahad | 93 |
| AF Afghanistan | #35 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 478 | — | Farhad | 36 |
| OM Oman | #7 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 386 | — | Fahad | 85 |
| KW Kuwait | #20 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 288 | — | Fahad | 139 |
| QA Qatar | #45 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 666 | — | Fahad | 104 |
| US United States | — | 2,646 | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Farhad | 276 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fahad 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.
Pantera
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fahad bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1923SASaudi Arabian prince and politician
- Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabahb. 1945KWFounder of the Kuwait Olympic Committee (1945-1990)
- Fahad Khameesb. 1962AEEmirati footballer
- Fahad Al-Bishib. 1965SASaudi Arabian footballer (born 1965)
- Fahad Al-Mehallelb. 1970SASaudi Arabian footballer
- Fahad Al-Ghesheyanb. 1973SASaudi Arabian footballer
- Fahad Al-Mirdasib. 1985SASaudi Arabian association football referee
- Fahad Al Enezib. 1988KWBasketball player
- Fahad Al-Muwalladb. 1994SASaudi professional footballer
- Fahad Talibb. 1994IQIraqi association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 63 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,139 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 55 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #6,139 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fahad mean, and where does it come from?
- panther; powerful Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Fahad?
- A machine transcription gives /fɑhæd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Fahad a male or female name?
- Fahad 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.
- In which country does Fahad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 318 thousand people named Fahad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fahad.
- How common is the name Fahad?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,646 people named Fahad in 2020, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
- How common is Fahad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Fahad is the 186th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fahadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Fahad” — the 186th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.