Faiz

Faiz (Arabic: فیض) is a male Arabic name meaning overflowing, plenty.^[3]

Faiz

Pronunciation	Arabic: [fa-iz]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	فيض
Meaning	Arabic: successful, victorious. overflowing[1] Urdu: grace, favour[2]
Region of origin	Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia
Other names
Related names	Faiza, Faizan, Faizy, Faizi, Faizul, Faizuddin, Faizullah, Faizah, Faizur, Fayez

People with the name

• Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara (1862/63–1929), a Hazara historian, writer and intellectual
• Faiz El-Ghusein (1883–1968), an official of the Turkish Government
• Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911–1984), a Pakistani Urdu poet
• Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah (1911–1984), a Pakistani Islamic religious scholar
• Haji Faiz Mohammed (born 1932), an Afghan man who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
• Faiz Ahmad (1946–1986), an Afghan Marxist–Leninist
• Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb (born 1982), Bangladeshi author, columnist, technology architect and state minister
• Faiz al-Hasan, Bangladeshi politician
• Faiz Ali Chishti (1927-2024), Pakistani general
• Faiz Ali Faiz (born 1962), a Pakistani qawwali singer
• Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi (born 1967), a British Muslim scholar
• Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari (born 1975), a Kuwaiti citizen who has been detained in Guantanamo Bay since 2002
• Ahmed Faiz (born 1979), a Saudi Arabian long jumper
• Faiz Khaleed (born 1980), a Malaysian military dentist, astronaut
• Faiz Fazal (born 1980), an Indian cricketer
• Foyej Ahmed, Bangladeshi High Court justice
• Foyez Ahmad (1928–2012), Bangladeshi journalist, poet, politician and cultural activist

Nobility and royalty

The name is particularly common among the royal and noble houses of South Asia.

Sovereigns:

• Al-Faiz (1149–1160), a Caliph of the Fatimid dynasty
• Nawab Faiz Ali Khan (Banganapalle), Nawab of Baganapalle (1686–1759)
• Nawab Faiz Muhammad Khan (1731-1777), Nawab of Bhopal (r.1742-1777)
• Nawab Faiz Talb Khan, Nawab of Pataudi
• Nawab Faiz'Ullah Khan (1730-1794), Nawab of Rampur

Princes and nobles:

• Tengku Muhammad Faiz Petra (born 1974), the Crown Prince of Kelantan

Compound names with the particle Faiz

• Faizullah, multiple people
• Faiz-ul-Hasan
  • Faizul Hasan, Bangladeshi politician
  • Syed Faizul Hassan Shah, Pakistani politician
• Faiz-ul-Islam
  • Faizul Islam (1963–2025), economist and writer
  • Faizul Islam Rangpuri (born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Faizul Mahi (1939–1971), Bangladeshi intellectual
• Faizul Latif Chowdhury (born 1959), Bangladeshi civil servant
• Faizul Waheed (1964–2021), Indian Islamic scholar and jurist
• Faizul Amri Adnan (born 1973), Malaysian politician
• Syed Faizul Karim (born 1973), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician

See also

• Fayez, a variant form
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