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Faisal

#3,051 in 2025Boys' name

Arbiter

Faisal has been given to 2,150 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #3,051 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Faisal, 2025

1 in 82,900

Faisal over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Faisal: meaning, origin, and history

Arbiter

Arabic

What Faisal means

Faisal means “arbiter”, associated with fayṣal.

Origin, language, and formation

Faisal is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Faisal comes through Arabic فَيْصَل.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,150 boys were recorded with the name Faisal between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,574 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,477 in 2020 to #3,051 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,121 in 2015 to #3,051 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 Faisal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 42,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,051
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Faisal 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Faisal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Faisals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Faisal was born before 2005 — so the typical Faisal is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,150
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (623).

Is Faisal 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
−289
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−574
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−930
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.8%
Peak was 2014 (82)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,574
1999

Spellings of Faisal

Faisal is the most-used spelling, taking 72.3% of the 2,973 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Faisal72.3%2,150
  • Faizan27.7%823

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.

Where Faisal is used

Across 2016–2025, Faisal was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 54,328 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Ohio1 in 33,333
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Faisal around the world

Where Faisal 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
    1996–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • France
    1967–2025
    #4,473
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2001
    #525
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Faisal

People whose public names include Faisal, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Faisal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,051
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 574
Best rank ever
#1,574
1999
Peak year
2014
82 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,150
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Faisal

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

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Names with a curve like Faisal

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Faisal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VikramChasenSalimZachariasJansenCalenNaeemJairusSaadArenSkyeAramis

Sibling names for Faisal

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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