Faik
given name · Latin script
Meaning: superior
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/faic/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Faik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 470
- ALAlbania1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 470 (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
superior
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faik counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #407 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Faik | 88 |
| XK Kosovo | #634 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 470 | 3K | Faik | 5 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Faik | 16 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,292 | 1 in 2.4K | 1.3K | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 230K | listed | Faik | 46 |
| MK North Macedonia | #207 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Faik | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the id-github-names register; the az-justice-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Faik is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Manevi yönden üstün olan, yüksek, yüce.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In sco, To abate.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chk, forty
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Faik Pashab. 1876TROttoman pasha (general), military personnel of World War I
- Faik Ali Ozansoyb. 1876TRTurkish statesperson and writer (1876–1950)
- Faik Öztrakb. 1882TRTurkish statesperson (1882–1951)
- Faik Kurdoğlub. 1892TRTurkish statesperson (1892–1981)
- Faik Ahmet Barutçub. 1894TRTurkish statesperson (1894–1959)
- Sait Faik Abasıyanıkb. 1906TRTurkish writer of short stories and poetry (1906-1954)
- Faik İsmail Ardab. 1935BGTurkish poet (1935–1995)
- Faik Öztrakb. 1954TRTurkish economist and statesperson (born 1954)
- Faik Kamberovićb. 1968BABosnian footballer
- Faik Erginb. 1978TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1978)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 3K | #203 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1.3K | #369 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1954 | 69 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1963 | 65 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1966 | 64 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1968 | 62 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 2 | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Faik mean, and where does it come from?
- superior Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Faik?
- A machine transcription gives /faic/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Faik a male or female name?
- Faik is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Faik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Faik in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faik.
- How common is the name Faik?
- In Albania, the national register counted 1,292 people named Faik, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Faik compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Faik is the 407th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Faik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faikThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Faik” — the 407th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.