Given name & surname
Faruq
“one who knows the truth”
Faruq is a variant of Farouk. One Arabic interpretation is “one who knows the truth.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Faruq is a variant of Farouk. One Arabic interpretation is “one who knows the truth.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Faruq is a variant of Farouk. An origin associated with Farouk is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Faruq through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 86
- 86 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 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 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 238 as a first name in 2020; 210 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.
Faruq’s family of names
Faruq has a related form in Farouk. Faruq is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Фарук.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Faruq
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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