Farid

Farid
GenderMale
Language(s)Arabic
Origin
Word/nameMiddle Eastern
MeaningUnique
Other names
Alternative spellingFarid, Fareed, Ferid, Ferit
Nickname(s)Farid
DerivedFard "Unique"
Popularitysee popular names

Farid (Arabic: فَرِيد fariyd, farīd), also spelt Fareed or Ferid and accented Férid, is an Arabic masculine personal name or surname meaning "unique, singular ("the One"), incomparable".[1] For many communities, including in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa, and South East Asia, the name Fareed is common across generations.

Given name

Farid

Fahrid

Fareed

Ferid

  • Ferid Berberi (born 1946-2021), Albanian sportsman and weightlifter
  • Férid Boughedir (born 1944), Tunisian film director and screenwriter
  • Ferid Chouchane (born 1973), Tunisian footballer
  • Ferid Džanić (1918–1943), Bosniak soldier during World War II
  • Ferid Idrizović (born 1982), Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
  • Ferid Imam (born 1980), Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen who is believed to have provided military training to al Qaeda jihadists in Pakistan
  • Ferid Matri (born 1994), Swiss-Tunisian-Italian footballer
  • Ferid Muhić (born 1943), Bosnian-Herzegovinian administrator and President of the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Ferid Murad (1936-2023), Albanian physician and pharmacologist, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Ferid Radeljaš (born 1959), Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
  • Ferid Rragami (born 1957), Albanian footballer

Compound names with Farid as a component

Middle name

Fareed

  • Ibrahim Fareed Didi, a prince, son of Sultan Abdul Majeed Didi and Princess consort Famuladeyrige Didi and the brother of King Muhammad Fareed Didi of Maldives.
  • Muhammad Fareed Didi (1901–1969), a king. Son of the Sultan Prince Abdul Majeed Didi was the last Sultan of Maldives and the first Maldivian monarch to assume the title of King

Ferid

  • Damat Ferid Pasha (1853–1923), Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the de facto prime minister of the Ottoman Empire
  • Mehmed Ferid Pasha (1851-1914), Ottoman statesman of ethnic Albanian background. He served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1903-1908)

Surname

Farid

Fareed

  • Ahmed Fareed, American studio host and sports reporter
  • Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (born 1970), American rapper also known as Q-Tip
  • Kamaal Fareed (born 1970), American rapper, record producer, singer, actor and DJ better known as Q-Tip and also The Abstract
  • Muhammad Fareed (1926–2011), Pakistani mufti and writer
  • Morad Fareed (born 1979), Palestinian-American entrepreneur
  • Muneer Fareed (born 1956), Muslim scholar and the former secretary general of ISNA (Islamic Society of North America)
  • Vala Fareed (born 1975), Iraqi-Kurdish politician, Minister of State for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and previously the first female speaker of the legislature

Faried

Fictional

See also

References

  1. ^ Sung Ock Lee (2011). A Cultural Comparative Study on the Self-Identification of Maronites in Lebanon and Assyrians in Iraq (PDF) (PhD thesis). Lebanese University. p. 138.
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