Faiq
given name · Latin script
Meaning: superb, excellent
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Faiq is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 28K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
superb, excellent
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faiq 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 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Faiq | 39 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Faiq | 84 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 178 | Faiq | 12 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Faiq | 34 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Faiq | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 59 | 1 in 173K | 59 | — | 6 |
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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Faiq is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
superior; surpassing;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, excellent, outstanding, distinguished, superior, ascendant
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, excellent, outstanding, distinguished, superior
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In za, cotton (plant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Faiq Orucəliyevb. 1934AZAzerbaijani scientist
- Faiq Abdullayevb. 1936AZAzerbaijani scientist
- Faiq Hasanovb. 1940AZAzerbaijani chess player
- Faiq Rəcəblib. 1946AZAzerbaijani photographer
- Faiq İsmayılovb. 1957AZAzerbaijani writer
- Faiq Hüsiyevb. 1970AZAzerbaijani journalist
- Faiq Ağayevb. 1971AZAzerbaijani pop singer
- Faig Alakbarlib. 1977AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani Turkologist
- Faiq Bolkiahb. 1998BNBruneian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,660 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Faiq mean, and where does it come from?
- superb, excellent Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Faiq a male or female name?
- Faiq 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 Faiq have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Faiq in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faiq.
- How common is the name Faiq?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 59 people named Faiq, about 1 in 173 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faiqThe 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, “Faiq”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.