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Pronunciation
  
Arabic: [faːʔɪz]

Word/name
  
فائز

Gender
  
Male

Meaning
  
Arabic: successful, victorious Urdu: grace, favour

Region of origin
  
Middle East, Indian sub-continent, South East Asia

Related names
  
Faiza, Faizan, Faizi, Faizul, Faizuddin, Faizullah, Faizah, Faizur, Fayez

Faiz (Arabic: فائز‎‎) is a male Arabic name meaning "successful" and "victorious".

It is derived from its root word Faza فأز which means successful.

People with the name

  • Al-Faiz (1149–1160), a Caliph of the Fatimid dynasty
  • Faiz Ali Khan (Banganapalle), (1686–1759), an Indian noble
  • 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 (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 Karizi (1953-), an Afghan singer
  • Faiz Ali Faiz (1962–), a Pakistani qawwali singer
  • Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi (1967–), a British Muslim scholar
  • Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari (1975-), a Kuwaiti citizen who has been detained in Guantanamo Bay since 2002
  • Valiullah Faiz Mahdavi (1978–2006), an Iranian political prisoner
  • Ahmed Faiz (1979–), a Saudi Arabian long jumper
  • Faiz Khaleed (1980–), a Malaysian military dentist, astronaut
  • Faiz Fazal (1980–), an Indian cricketer
  • Tengku Muhammad Faiz Petra, the Crown Prince of Kelantan
  • Faiz AR, Malaysian instagrammer
  • References

    Faiz Wikipedia