Faruq
Farooq is a common Arabic given and family name. Al-Fārūq literally means "the one who distinguishes between right and wrong."
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Faruq
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Farooq is a common Arabic given and family name. Al-Fārūq literally means "the one who distinguishes between right and wrong."
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Faruq
American parents first put Faruq on the record books as a baby boy name in 1972, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2005, when 8 Faruqs were born — ranking #8,299 that year. About 48% of every Faruq on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Faruq last appeared in the published SSA data in 2018, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 86 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Faruq
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Faruq. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Faruq
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About the name Faruq
Faruq is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1972 and has accumulated 86 births in the dataset. Faruq's peak popularity came in 2005 when it ranked #8,299. Use the chart and map above to compare Faruq's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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