Fun Facts About the Name Fayaz
- 31 babies named Fayaz: U.S. records list 31 babies given the name Fayaz from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Fayaz Mean?
Fayaz is an Arabic name meaning "generous" or "bountiful." It comes from the root f-y-ḍ, which has to do with overflowing and abundance; the related noun fayḍ means "overflow" or "flood," and fāʾiḍ means "overflowing." The name is built on the intensive adjective pattern faʿʿāl, so the Arabic form Fayyāḍ (فَيّاض) describes a person who gives repeatedly and plentifully. In religious usage, al-Fayyāḍ is an epithet applied to God as the abundant giver. The literal sense is "overflowing, abundantly giving"; the customary translation "generous" is a near-equivalent rather than a word-for-word rendering. The name is used in Arabic-speaking countries and, in Persian and Urdu forms, in Iran, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh; Turkish has the form Feyyaz.
Fayaz Name History & Origins
The name rests on the Arabic root f-y-ḍ, whose core sense of overflowing water underlies words for floods, abundance, and generous giving. Arabic forms the intensive adjective Fayyāḍ from that root, and the name appears in Arabic-speaking Muslim communities as a personal name. The Arabic spelling carries a doubled yāʾ (فَيّاض), which transliteration renders as Fayyāḍ or, with the diacritic dropped, Fayyaz.
With the spread of Islam and of Persian as a literary and administrative language, the name entered Persian as Feyyāz and passed from there into the Persian-influenced culture of the Indian subcontinent, where Urdu speakers use Fayyāz. In Turkish the name took the form Feyyaz. Spellings in Latin script vary mainly in how the doubled consonant and the long vowel are shown, giving Fayaz, Fayyaz, and Feyyaz.
The similar-looking name Faiz belongs to a different root (f-y-z, associated with winning and success) and should not be treated as a variant of Fayaz.
How Popular is the Name Fayaz?
Fayaz has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2024. Its best rank was #7,324 in 1987.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #11,103 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #8,505 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #11,193 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #12,827 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #7,324 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Fayaz Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are kind, home-loving, hospitable and friendly. Since you take responsibility well, you are a good organizer of social affairs. Compassion for others is an outstanding trait. You are a great lover and a great flirt – an artist, musician, actor, teacher, nurse. Your character can be contradictory. You are practical, yet idealistic and intuitive; capable of selfless devotion to someone you love, yet look to receive payback. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
You are seeking freedom, opportunities to enjoy life: to make love, to go places and to do things. You are very adventurous and willing to take risk to achieve your objectives. New ways and new experiences can't satisfy your restless nature. One adventure leads you to another. You are honest and fair, because you know that this is the only way to receive justice and honesty from other people. But your personal growth is vital for you, and it is difficult to be tied down by rules and obligations. Your restless spirit might best controlled by choosing the field of work that meet your demand for action and adventure.
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