Given name & surname
Faruk
“one who knows the truth”
Faruk is a variant of Farouk. One Arabic interpretation is “one who knows the truth.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Faruk is a variant of Farouk. One Arabic interpretation is “one who knows the truth.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Faruk is a variant of Farouk. An origin associated with Farouk is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish فاروق (Fârûk), from Arabic فَارُوق (“distinguisher (between truth and falsehood)”); its root is Arabic ف ر ق.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Faruk through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 55
- 55 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 684 as a first name in 2020; 324 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Faruk
- Faruk HadžibegićBosnian football manager and former footballerborn 1957
- Faruk İremetTurkish-Swedish translator and writer (born 1965)
- Faruk ŠehićBosnian writerborn 1970
- Faruk YiğitTurkish association football player (born 1966)
- Faruk BegolliKosovar actor (1944–2007)
- Faruk ÇelikTurkish statesperson (born 1956)
- Faruk Nafız ÖzakTurkish athlete and statesperson (born 1946)
- Faruk Nafiz ÇamlıbelTurkish poet and statesperson (1898–1973)
- Faruk LoğoğluTurkish diplomat and statesperson (born 1941)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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