# Faisal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/faisal/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “arbiter” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Faysal |
| US babies named this | 2,150 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,150 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 985, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic فَيْصَل (fayṣal, literally “arbiter”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 64 | 2,088 |
| 2012 | 74 | 1,926 |
| 2013 | 65 | 2,076 |
| 2014 | 82 | 1,818 |
| 2015 | 66 | 2,121 |
| 2016 | 60 | 2,242 |
| 2017 | 64 | 2,139 |
| 2018 | 46 | 2,683 |
| 2019 | 52 | 2,533 |
| 2020 | 52 | 2,478 |
| 2021 | 41 | 2,992 |
| 2022 | 51 | 2,625 |
| 2023 | 35 | 3,368 |
| 2024 | 47 | 2,762 |
| 2025 | 40 | 3,052 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 999 |
| 2012 | 22 | 1,191 |
| 2013 | 30 | 954 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,421 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,121 |
| 2016 | 25 | 1,123 |
| 2017 | 22 | 1,210 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,194 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1,635 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,420 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 13 | 1,859 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Faisal

- Faisal I of Iraq, 1st king of Hashemite Iraq from 1921 to 1933
- Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud, Emir of Nejd and Head of the House of Saud (1785–1865)
- Faisal Miqdad, former Syrian Vice President
- Faisal Khan, Bollywood actor
- Faisal al-Qassem, British-Syrian television personality
- Faisal Sakhizada, Afghan footballer
- Faisal Agab, association football player
- Faisal Khalil, Emirati footballer
- Prince Faisal bin Hamad of Bahrain, Bahraini Royal (1991-2006)
- Faisal Bodahoom, footballer
- Feis Ecktuh, Dutch rapper

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.