Meaning & origin
What it means
Fazal goes back to Arabic فَضْل (faḍl), meaning “grace, blessing.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fazal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 23
- 23 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 7 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 7 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 696 as a first name in 2020; 734 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.
Fazal’s family of names
In Greek usage, Fazal as a surname is a transliteration of Φαζάλ.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Fazal
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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