Faisal
An Arabic name meaning "judge", the one who settles a dispute. Barely a hundred men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Faisal Pronunciation
Faisal is pronounced fah-EE-sahl (/faˈisal/).
What Faisal means
Where Faisal comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Faisal comes from the Arabic faysal, a word for the one who settles a dispute and hands down the ruling. The short meaning stays close to that root: judge, decision-maker, the arbiter whose word ends the argument. In Arabic grammar the term marked a clean cut between two claims. A person given this name is named for that act of deciding.
History supplies real bearers. Faisal I ruled Iraq from 1921 until his death in 1933. Faisal of Saudi Arabia reigned as king from 1964 to 1975. Both carried a name that means the one who resolves.
The name is rare in Poland. Picture a class register in a Warsaw school where Faisal sits among the Jakubs and Zuzannas, the only entry of its kind on the page. It has no Polish diminutive and no cross-gender variant. In Polish the sense is rozjemca, ten który rozstrzyga. The word stays whole, and so does its meaning: judge.
How many people are named Faisal
1 in 201379 men in Poland is named Faisal. 106 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3312 among male names.
Faisal as a middle name
Faisal is a first name for 106 men in Poland and a middle name for another 34, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1410th, between Estiven (34) and Gastón (34).
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#1408 Erdem34
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#1409 Estiven34
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#1410 Faisal34
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#1411 Gastón34
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#1412 Gedeon34