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Fayez

#6,918 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Faiz

Fayez has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #6,918 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Fayez, 2025

1 in 276,000

Fayez over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fayez: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Faiz

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fayez means

Fayez is a alternate transcription of Faiz.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Fayez is a alternate transcription of Faiz. Faiz has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Faiz.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 212 boys were recorded with the name Fayez between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2012; its best national rank was #6,468 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,981 in 2020 to #6,918 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,117 in 2015 to #6,918 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.

How common is Fayez?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,918
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fayez 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fayez. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fayezs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fayez was born before 2009 — so the typical Fayez is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
212
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Choose a decade

2000s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Fayez 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
+49
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,063
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,199
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2012 (12)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,468
2000

Spellings of Fayez

Fayez is not the most common spelling — Hayes is, with 55.7% against Fayez's 0.56%.

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.

Fayez around the world

Where Fayez 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
    1999–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1986–2025
    #2,242
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1976–1993
    #519
    in 1993

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.

Fayez by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,918
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,063
Best rank ever
#6,468
2000
Peak year
2012
12 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
212
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Fayez

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

FayazFaysalFayneFayeFayetteHayezFaytFaydenFaybianReyezFayzanFayFayyad

Sibling names for Fayez

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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