Fariz
Rare in Poland: about 60 men carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and no boys got it last year. Arabic in root, it means "knight, horseman".
Fariz Pronunciation
Fariz is pronounced FAH-rees (/ˈfaris/).
What Fariz means
Where Fariz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fariz reaches Polish through Arabic, and its meaning sits in the saddle: knight, horseman. The Arabic فارس (fāris) names the rider who fights, the man given a horse and expected to use it. The word stands close to faras, the Arabic for horse, so the horseman is spelled out of the animal he rides.
To be a fāris was to hold rank. A commoner walked. The mounted man carried a lance and answered for it.
Fariz is the shorter, rounder form of that old title. It keeps no diminutives here and no separate variants, so a child receives the whole name at once. On a school register in Poland, Fariz sits among other two-syllable names and needs no footnote. Read it back to its root and you land on the same figure: a rider, a knight.
How many people are named Fariz
1 in 355770 men in Poland is named Fariz. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4752 among male names.
Fariz as a middle name
Fariz is a first name for 60 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7667th, between Farit (2) and Farook (2).
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#7665 Farik2
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#7666 Farit2
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#7667 Fariz2
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#7668 Farook2
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#7669 Farouq2