Fazil
An Arabic name meaning "virtuous, excellent". Only about 50 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in years: most Poles will never meet one.
Fazil Pronunciation
Fazil is pronounced FAH-zheel (/ˈfaʑil/).
What Fazil means
Where Fazil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fazil traces to the Arabic word fāḍil, built on a root that speaks of merit and excellence. The name has long carried the sense of someone virtuous, someone excellent. Arabic speakers used the related word fadl for grace and generosity, and the person called fāḍil was the one who had it. So the meaning sits close to the word itself. That is rare for a name.
The name travels well beyond Arabic. The Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say, born in Ankara in 1970, spells it with a dotless ı and plays concert halls across Europe. His fame gives the name a living face, tied still to the idea of the excellent one.
In Poland the name is uncommon. A teacher reading a class register in Gdańsk might pause on it once. There is no Polish name-day set aside for Fazil, and the calendar of imieniny leaves it out. What stays fixed is the short meaning: cnotliwy, doskonały, virtuous and excellent.
How many people are named Fazil
1 in 402758 men in Poland is named Fazil. 53 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5138 among male names.
Fazil as a middle name
Fazil is a first name for 53 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6237th, between Farys (3) and Febri (3).
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#6235 Faruq3
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#6236 Farys3
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#6237 Fazil3
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#6238 Febri3
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#6239 Felippe3