Faiz

Faiz
Pronunciation	Arabic: [faː.ɪz]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	فائز
Meaning	Arabic: successful, victorious Urdu: grace, favour
Region of origin	Middle East, Indian sub-continent, South East Asia
Other names
Related names	Faiza, Faizan, Faizi, Faizul, Faizuddin, Faizullah, Faizah, Faizur

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 Ahmed 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 Bin Basheer (29/6/1999)

Other

• Kamen Rider 555
• Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah