Faisal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Faisal (Faysal) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’person som separerar rätt från fel’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfeɪzəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Faisal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 262(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 468
- KWKuwait≈1 in 480
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 Faisal 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
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 262 (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 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)
15 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ไพศาล in TH Thailand.
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)
Faisal (Faysal) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’person som separerar rätt från fel’. Det kan också betyda ’svärd’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Faisal is read(measured from records)
Faisal is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic21%
umpire, arbitrator, decisive, sword, a judge
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
arbitrator
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Urdu17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Faisal in Urdu.
- English15%
Saudi Arabian dynasty
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Indonesian13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Faisal in Indonesian.
- Hindi13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Faisal in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faisal 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 | #65 | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 468 | listed | Faisal | 156 |
| ID Indonesia | #264 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Faisal | 198 |
| BD Bangladesh | #81 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Faisal | 117 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #20 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 262 | — | Faisal | 219 |
| TH Thailand | #249 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | #34,083 | ไพศาล | 117 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #17 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 589 | — | Faisal | 173 |
| KW Kuwait | #36 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 480 | — | Faisal | 115 |
| US United States | — | 4,863 | 1 in 68K | 4.8K | Faisal | 331 |
| QA Qatar | #60 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 796 | — | Faisal | 92 |
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)
Faisal is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Faisal (Faysal) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’person som separerar rätt från fel’. Det kan också betyda ’svärd’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, ) Faysal; Feisal: männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. ^/ojsaf »Richter«, auch »scharfes Schwert«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Cultivador de habas; que pertenece a la familia Fabia
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Faisal bin Turkib. 1864OMSultan of Muscat and Oman (1864-1913)
- Faisal I of Iraqb. 1885SA1st king of Hashemite Iraq from 1921 to 1933
- King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1906SAKing of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975
- Faisal II of Iraqb. 1935IQKing of Iraq from 4 April 1939 until 1958
- Faisal Husseinib. 1940PSPalestinian politician (1940–2001)
- Prince Feisal bin Al-Hussein of Jordanb. 1963JOnot in their usual nameJordanian prince
- Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1970SASaudi royal
- Abel Xavierb. 1972MZnot in their usual namePortuguese-Mozambican association football player
- Faisal Naseemb. 1973MVMaldivian politician and 7th Vice President of the Maldives
- Fejsal Mulićb. 1994RSnot in their usual nameSerbian footballer
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 90 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #4,000 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 40 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #4,000 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Faisal?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfeɪzəɫ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Faisal mean?
- Recorded meaning: Faisal (Faysal) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’person som separerar rätt från fel’.
- Is Faisal a male or female name?
- Faisal 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 are other forms of the name Faisal?
- In the etymology graph, Faysal and Faizel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Faisal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 499 thousand people named Faisal in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faisal.
- How common is the name Faisal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,863 people named Faisal in 2020, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Faisal compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Faisal is the 65th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faisalThe 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, “Faisal” — the 65th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.