Faruk
A Turkish and Arabic name for one who tells right from wrong. Only about 120 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met a Faruk.
Faruk Pronunciation
Faruk is pronounced FAH-rook (/ˈfaruk/).
What Faruk means
Where Faruk comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Faruk comes from the Arabic al-Faruq, a title meaning the one who separates truth from falsehood. Arabic tradition gave that title to Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph, and the name has held his reputation for judgment ever since. In Polish the meaning is written plainly: odróżniający dobro od zła, the one who tells good from evil.
Faruk travelled with Islam into Turkish, where it settled as a common given name. Egypt knew a King Farouk in the twentieth century, the last but one ruler of his line. The spelling shifts from country to country. The sense holds.
For a Polish family the name arrives without diminutives. There is no Faruś on the class register, no softened form kept for a name day. Faruk stands as it is, four letters that name a person able to weigh right against wrong.
How many people are named Faruk
1 in 174969 men in Poland is named Faruk. 122 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3041 among male names.
Faruk's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Faruk as a middle name
Faruk is a first name for 122 men in Poland and a middle name for another 144, a 46/54 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 586th, between Mikael (145) and Marcelo (144).
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#584 Lawrence145
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#585 Mikael145
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#586 Faruk144
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#587 Marcelo144
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#588 Muhammad144