Faisal

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Faisal: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Faisal: Recorded since 1971, it reached #288 in 1981, and it stood at #1,859 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
54years from first to last
#288highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#350
1997	#312
1998	#409
1999	#423
2000	#388
2001	#433
2002	#493
2003	#514
2004	#688
2005	#678
2006	#663
2007	#711
2008	#789
2009	#1008
2010	#996
2011	#999
2012	#1191
2013	#954
2014	#1421
2015	#1121
2016	#1123
2017	#1210
2018	#1194
2019	#1745
2020	#1635
2021	#1391
2022	#1420
2023	#1799
2024	#1859

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 25 of the 31 years from 1971 to 2001.

In 2001: #433 among boys in England and Wales, #540 among boys in Norway.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1971–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1971
First recorded at #587 among boys in Norway in 1971 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1971–2001
Highest recorded position: #288 among boys in Norway, in 1981 (recorded 1971–2001).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1859 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Faisal appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 969 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Boys, from 1971.

Faisal across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Faisal's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#587 (1971)	#288 (1981)	#540 (2001)	25 of 31	177 (1971–2001)	16 (1981)
England and Wales · Boys	#350 (1996)	#312 (1997)	#1859 (2024)	29 of 29	969 (1996–2024)	78 (1997)

Faisal by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Faisal in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	252	4 of 10	63
2000sbusiest	411	10 of 10	41
2010s	230	10 of 10	23
2020s	76	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 41 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Faisal appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1971 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #288 in Norway in 1981.

Faisal's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1859	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1420	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1391	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1635	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1194	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1210	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1123	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1121	24	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1421	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#954	30	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1191	22	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#999	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#996	28	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1008	26	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#789	36	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#711	39	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#663	41	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#678	38	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#688	34	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#514	46	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#493	44	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#433	49	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#388	58	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#423	52	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#409	54	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#312	78	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#350	68	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#540	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#504	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#461	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#504	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#570	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#477	6	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#484	7	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#453	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#576	5	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#582	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#526	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#525	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#498	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#364	12	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#378	11	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#367	12	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#288	16	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#572	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#556	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#417	9	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#449	8	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#422	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#457	8	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#584	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#587	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1971 and 2024, ranked in 49 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #288, first reached in 1981.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 78 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Franz · #288, 10y
Loughlin · #288, 16y
Nevan · #288, 26y
Bebhinn · #290, 38y

Faisal was ranked #288 in Norway · Boys in 1981. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Faisal and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Faisal without appearing here.

Faisal moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1859 and #5119.
Gary Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1391 and #1329 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1420 and #2018.
Ross Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1420 and #1366 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1799 and #2160.
Brett Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1745 and #1745 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1635 and #1935.

Moved ahead of Faisal

Darragh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1194 and #1991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1745 and #974.
Fionn Compare
In 2013 they stood at #954 and #976 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1421 and #805.
Harper Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1420 and #1609 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1799 and #1207.
Murray Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #2007 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1859 and #1282.

Moved the opposite way to Faisal

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faisal went from #350 to #1859 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faisal went from #350 to #1859 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faisal went from #350 to #1859 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faisal went from #350 to #1859 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Faisal

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faisal went from #350 to #1859 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faisal went from #350 to #1859 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faisal went from #350 to #1859 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Faisal went from #350 to #1859 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1971 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #288 in Norway in 1981. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Faisal

Faisal at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Faisal across 2 official records

Faisal by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Faisal appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

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Faisal moved ahead of

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Faisal at a glance

Faisal across 2 official records

Faisal by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Faisal appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Faisal

Faisal and the names beside it

Faisal moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Faisal

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