Faysal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Faysal 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. Recorded meaning: 1. Keskin kılıç. 2. Hâkim.
- SYSyria≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 262as Faisal
- PKPakistan≈1 in 468as Faisal
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 Faysal 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 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 named Faisal, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
14 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Faisal in PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia, ID Indonesia and 6 more and 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)
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.
How Faysal is read(measured from records)
Faysal is one spelling over 2 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.
- Turkish55%
1. Keskin kılıç. 2. Hâkim. 3. Kesin hüküm, karar.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Arabic20%
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
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Faysal 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 |
| SY Syria | #814 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Faisal | 42 |
| QA Qatar | #60 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 796 | — | Faisal | 92 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 323 | 1 in 54K | 316 | Faisal | 36 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Faysal bin Sa'ud Al Sa'udb. 1926SASaudi Arabian politician
- Faisal al-Shaabib. 1935YEPrime 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(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 7 | #27,806 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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
- What does the name Faysal mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Keskin kılıç. 2. Hâkim.
- 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 are other forms of the name Faysal?
- In the etymology graph, Faisal and Faizel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Faysal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 499 thousand people named Faisal in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Faysal?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 323 people named Faysal, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
- How common is Faysal compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Faysal 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/faysalThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Faysal” — the 65th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.