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Faysal

Boys' name

Arbiter, through Faisal

Faysal has been given to 205 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 2009, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Faysal, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Faysal: meaning, origin, and history

Arbiter, through Faisal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Faysal means

Faysal belongs to the name family reached through Faysal → Faisal. Its meaning is “arbiter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Faysal is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Faisal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 205 boys were recorded with the name Faysal between 1993 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2009; its best national rank was #5,603 in 2006.

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 Faysal?

Faysal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Faysal 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Faysal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Faysals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Faysal was born before 2008 — so the typical Faysal is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
205
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Faysal 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 2009 (16)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,603
2006

Spellings of Faysal

Faysal is not the most common spelling — Faisal is, with 91.3% against Faysal's 8.7%.

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.

Faysal around the world

Where Faysal 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
    1996–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    1972–2024
    #3,951
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2007–2015
    #2,414
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Faysal 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
#5,603
2006
Peak year
2009
16 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
205
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Faysal

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

FayezArsalFayazFayetteFayneFaisalFayeFaydenVatsalFaybianFayzanFayyadMursalFaytJaisalFeysalSalFay

Sibling names for Faysal

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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