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Faruq

Boys' name

Person who can tell right from wrong

Faruq has been given to 86 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Faruq, 2018

1 in 586,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Faruq: meaning, origin, and history

Person who can tell right from wrong

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Faruq means

Faruq means “person who can tell right from wrong”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Faruq is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /faː.ˈruːq/ for Faruq.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 86 boys were recorded with the name Faruq between 1972 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2005; its best national rank was #5,216 in 1972.

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.

How common is Faruq?

Faruq had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 303,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Faruq 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Faruq. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Faruqs were born

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

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
86
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Faruq 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (8)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,216
1972

Spellings of Faruq

Faruq is not the most common spelling — Tariq is, with 29.3% against Faruq's 0.37%.

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.

Faruq around the world

Where Faruq 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
    1997–2018
    #3,959
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2005–2005
    #448
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Faruq by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,216
1972
Peak year
2005
8 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Faruq

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

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Sibling names for Faruq

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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