Faysal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Keskin kılıç. 2. Hâkim
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Spain (INE): listed as male
- France (INSEE, 2017): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries
/fajsˈaɫ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Faysal is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name.
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 12K
- NLNetherlands1 in 54K
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)
- Record sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330,000 named Faisal, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 IN India, PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia and 7 more.
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 771 | listed | Faisal | 156 |
| ID Indonesia | #264 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Faisal | 198 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #20 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 274 | — | Faisal | 219 |
| IN India | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 520 | Faisal | 169 |
| BD Bangladesh | #81 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Faisal | 117 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #17 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 608 | — | Faisal | 173 |
| KW Kuwait | #36 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 444 | — | Faisal | 115 |
| QA Qatar | #60 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 441 | — | Faisal | 92 |
| SY Syria | #814 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Faisal | 42 |
| 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)- Faisal al-Shaabib. 1935YEPrime Minister of South Yemen
- Faysal Ahmedb. 1985SOsomali–American actor
- Faysal Shayestehb. 1991AFAfghan 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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Faysal?
- In the etymology graph, Faisal and Faizel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Faysal?
- In Turkish /fajsˈaɫ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Faysal a male or female name?
- Faysal is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Spain (INE): listed as male; France (INSEE, 2017): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Faysal mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Keskin kılıç. 2. Hâkim.
- Which countries have the most people named Faysal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 326 thousand people named Faisal in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, India and Bangladesh; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faysalThe 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, “Faysal” — the 65th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.