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Fuad

#6,922 in 2025Boys' name

Heart, soul

Fuad has been given to 512 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #6,922 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Fuad, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fuad: meaning, origin, and history

Heart, soul

Arabic

What Fuad means

Fuad means “heart, soul”, associated with fuʔād.

Origin, language, and formation

Fuad is used in Albanian, Azerbaijani, Indonesian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 512 boys were recorded with the name Fuad between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2013; its best national rank was #3,585 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,750 in 2020 to #6,922 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,664 in 2015 to #6,922 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 Fuad?

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
#6,922
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fuad 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 Fuad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fuads were born

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

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
512
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Choose a decade

2000s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Fuad 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
+491
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−172
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+742
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.2%
Peak was 2013 (23)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,585
1996

Spellings of Fuad

Fuad is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 32.9% against Fuad's 0.05%.

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 Fuad is used

Across 1910–2025, Fuad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Fuad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fuad around the world

Where Fuad 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2008
    #4,724
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2003–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1964–1964
    #557
    in 1964

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.

Fuad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,922
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 172
Best rank ever
#3,585
1996
Peak year
2013
23 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
512
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Fuad

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

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Sibling names for Fuad

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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