Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Faryal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 150
- 0 boys · 150 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,761 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −51%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,761 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 430 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Faryal’s family of names
In English usage, Faryal has a conventional equivalent in the Turkish form Feryal. In English usage, Faryal has a related form in FARIAL. In English usage, Faryal has a conventional equivalent in the Uzbek form Faryol.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Faryal has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Persian roots to each of them.
Persianwhere Faryal comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Faryal
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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