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Fadil

#12,617 in 2025Boys' name

Virtuous, excellent

Fadil has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #12,617 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Fadil, 2025

1 in 663,000

Fadil over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fadil: meaning, origin, and history

Virtuous, excellent

Arabic

What Fadil means

Fadil means “virtuous, excellent”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fadil is used in Arabic and Albanian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈfaː.dˤil/ and /fa.ˈdˤiːl/ for Fadil.

Origin, language, and formation

Fadil is used in Albanian, Indonesian and Northern Kurdish. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Northern Kurdish, Fadil is pronounced /fɑːˈdɪl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 150 boys were recorded with the name Fadil between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2014; its best national rank was #5,344 in 1973.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,877 in 2015 to #12,617 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fadil?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,617
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fadil sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fadil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fadils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fadil was born before 2013 — so the typical Fadil is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
150
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Fadil rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,359
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,740
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2014 (10)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,344
1973

Spellings of Fadil

Fadil is not the most common spelling — Basil is, with 12.4% against Fadil's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Fadil around the world

Where Fadil ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1961–2025
    #5,525
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2002
    #2,079
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1961–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fadil by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,617
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,344
1973
Peak year
2014
10 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
150
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Fadil

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

FadelAadilFadiFadyEdilFadlAdilFadhl

Sibling names for Fadil

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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