Fuad
Fuad comes from Arabic, where fuʾād means the heart, both the beating organ and the seat of feeling old poets placed in the chest. Most Poles have never met one: only around 176 men here carry it, almost all with Arabic roots.
Fuad Pronunciation
Fuad is pronounced FOO-aht (/ˈfuat/).
What Fuad means
Where Fuad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fuad comes from Arabic, where the word fuʾād means the heart. The sense is direct. A boy named Fuad carries the Arabic word for the beating organ, and for the seat of feeling that older poets located inside the chest.
The name has no Polish variant and no diminutive of its own. It travels as Fuad, sometimes spelled Fouad in French-influenced records. Its best documented bearer is Fuad I, who reigned over Egypt from 1917 until his death in 1936, first as sultan and then as king. Through him the name reached newspapers far outside the Arabic-speaking world.
In a Polish class register, Fuad sits among the Jakubs and Kacpers without a name-day beside it. No entry in the Polish calendar marks a Fuad. The name answers instead to its own plain meaning, the Arabic fuʾād, heart.
How many people are named Fuad
1 in 121285 men in Poland is named Fuad. 176 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2400 among male names.
Fuad as a middle name
Fuad is a first name for 176 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3285th, between Frederico (9) and Gabriël (9).
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#3283 Freddie9
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#3284 Frederico9
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#3285 Fuad9
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#3286 Gabriël9
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#3287 Gerold9