Farid
PronunciationPersian: [fariːd]
GenderMale
Language(s)Arabic, Persian
Origin
Word/nameMiddle Eastern
MeaningUnique
Region of originPersian World
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 and Persian 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), 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, Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen who is believed to have provided military training to al Qaeda jihadists in Pakistan
  • Ferid Matri, Swiss-Tunisian-Italian footballer
  • Ferid Muhić (born 1943), Bosnian-Herzegovinian administrator and President of the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Ferid Murad (born 1936), 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

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, American rapper also known as Q-Tip
  • Donald Fareed, Iranian born American Christian tele-evangelist
  • Kamaal Fareed (born 1970), American rapper, record producer, singer, actor and DJ better known as Q-Tip and also The Abstract
  • 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

Farida (given name), the feminine form of the name

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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