Fuat
A Turkish name meaning "heart". Fewer than 50 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will go a lifetime without meeting one.
Fuat Pronunciation
Fuat is pronounced FOO-aht (/ˈfuat/).
What Fuat means
Where Fuat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fuat comes from the Arabic word fu'ād, which means heart. Turkish took the word in, smoothed its vowels, and held the sense exact. The meaning is heart.
In Arabic, fu'ād named the heart as the seat of feeling and thought, a shade apart from qalb. The Turkish name kept that sense almost intact. A man called Fuat is named for the inner heart.
Mehmed Fuat Köprülü lived from 1890 to 1966. He was a Turkish historian who founded the study of Turkish literary history, and he later served as foreign minister. His middle name is the same short word carried by every Fuat.
On a Polish class register, Fuat sits easily. Four letters, no trap for the teacher reading it out. The name stays close to its root, and the root means heart.
How many people are named Fuat
1 in 444712 men in Poland is named Fuat. 48 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5475 among male names.
Fuat as a middle name
Fuat is a first name for 48 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3864th, between Franziskus (7) and Gabriell (7).