Faisal
About 2,150 American babies have been named Faisal since 1973, most of them around 2014. In 2025 it ranked 3,036th. About 2,100 Faisals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Faisal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,150
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 1,812th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,036th
- First recorded
- 1973
How old the living Faisals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,150 babies given the name since 1973, about 2,100 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 960 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
From Arabic فَيْصَل.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Faisals
- King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1906–1975)King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975
- Faisal I of Iraq (1885–1933)1st king of Hashemite Iraq from 1921 to 1933
- Faisal II of Iraq (1935–1958)King of Iraq from 4 April 1939 until 1958
- Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi (1864–1913)Sultan of Muscat and Oman
- Faisal bin Musaid (1944–1975)Saudi Arabian prince, assassin of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
- Faisal bin Farhan (born 1974)Saudi Foreign Minister (2019–present)
- Faisal Al-Dakhil (born 1957)Kuwaiti footballer
- Faisal al-Fayez (born 1952)Jordanian politician
People named Faisal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Faisal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Faisal is most concentrated in California (3.6×), Virginia (3.4×), New York (3.1×), Texas (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Faisal peaked:
Faisal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Faisal | 985 | 312th |
| France boys | Faisal | 235 | 947th |
| Norway boys | Faisal | 177 | 286th |
| Scotland boys | Faisal | 58 | 229th |
| Belgium boys | Faisal | 11 | 1,246th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Faisal by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Faisal among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Faisal | 68 | 137 |
| Finland girls | Faisal | — | 40 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Faisal lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,045 men called Faisal were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Faisal | 103 | 2.353 | 85 |
| Ceuta | Faisal | 20 | 0.475 | 292 |
| Barcelona | Faisal | 326 | 0.112 | 613 |
| Tarragona | Faisal | 40 | 0.091 | 818 |
| Araba/Álava | Faisal | 13 | 0.077 | 849 |
| Lleida | Faisal | 18 | 0.076 | 958 |
Listed in 28 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 24 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Faisal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.