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Fouad

#9,173 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Fuad

Fouad has been given to 423 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #9,173 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Fouad, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fouad: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Fuad

Arabic

What Fouad means

Fouad is a alternate transcription of Fuad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fouad → Fuad. The family’s meaning is “heart, soul”, recorded in Turkish with the source elements fuʔād.

Origin, language, and formation

Fouad is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Fouad comes through Arabic فُؤَاد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fuad.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Fouad is pronounced /fu.ad/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 423 boys were recorded with the name Fouad between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1996; its best national rank was #3,336 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,677 in 2020 to #9,173 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,224 in 2015 to #9,173 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 Fouad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,173
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fouad 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fouad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fouads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fouad was born before 2002 — so the typical Fouad is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
423
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Fouad 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
+96
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,504
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,949
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.4%
Peak was 1996 (18)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,336
1984

Spellings of Fouad

Fouad is not the most common spelling — Ford is, with 78.0% against Fouad's 3.0%.

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 Fouad is used

Across 1910–2025, Fouad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,050,436 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Fouad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fouad around the world

Where Fouad 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
    2004–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1951–2025
    #3,585
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2009
    #473
    in 2009

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.

Fouad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,173
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,504
Best rank ever
#3,336
1984
Peak year
1996
18 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
423
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Fouad

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

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Sibling names for Fouad

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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