Meaning not yet researched.
Faisal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,577 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,577 in 1999; #3,052 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Faisal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,052 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,577.
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Faisal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,577 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 82 (2014).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Faisal, making it the 3,052nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 290 places from #2,762 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 47 boys named Faisal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,577, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 82, in 2014. For comparison, it was #2,121 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Faisal in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 11 babies. In all, 2,150 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 623 babies named Faisal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 488 US boys were named Faisal; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Faysal, Fazal and Faizal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Faysal (205), Fazal (23), Faizal (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Faisal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 40 | #3,052 |
| 2024 | — | — | 47 | #2,762 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,368 |
| 2022 | — | — | 51 | #2,625 |
| 2021 | — | — | 41 | #2,992 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,478 |
| 2019 | — | — | 52 | #2,533 |
| 2018 | — | — | 46 | #2,683 |
| 2017 | — | — | 64 | #2,139 |
| 2016 | — | — | 60 | #2,242 |
| 2015 | — | — | 66 | #2,121 |
| 2014 | — | — | 82 | #1,818 |
| 2013 | — | — | 65 | #2,076 |
| 2012 | — | — | 74 | #1,926 |
| 2011 | — | — | 64 | #2,088 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,479 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,774 |
| 2008 | — | — | 36 | #3,179 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,546 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,801 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,342 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,507 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,591 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,523 |
| 2001 | — | — | 43 | #2,320 |
| 2000 | — | — | 51 | #1,997 |
| 1999 | — | — | 70 | #1,577 |
| 1998 | — | — | 43 | #2,134 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #2,002 |
| 1996 | — | — | 37 | #2,229 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,264 |
| 1994 | — | — | 39 | #2,094 |
| 1993 | — | — | 46 | #1,832 |
| 1992 | — | — | 40 | #1,985 |
| 1991 | — | — | 35 | #2,109 |
| 1990 | — | — | 29 | #2,392 |
| 1989 | — | — | 39 | #1,906 |
| 1988 | — | — | 34 | #1,921 |
| 1987 | — | — | 29 | #2,079 |
| 1986 | — | — | 33 | #1,853 |
| 1985 | — | — | 27 | #2,089 |
| 1984 | — | — | 23 | #2,250 |
| 1983 | — | — | 25 | #2,109 |
| 1982 | — | — | 26 | #2,075 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,962 |
| 1980 | — | — | 19 | #2,570 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,408 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,404 |
| 1977 | — | — | 25 | #1,964 |
| 1976 | — | — | 23 | #2,071 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,674 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,400 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,080 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).