Gessan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gessan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.

  • SYSyria≈1 in 770Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 22Mfew records

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Syria (inferred from the name graph)

≈32 people, est.

Record sources
5 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 774K (inferred from the name graph)

Syria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ğessan in TR Türkiye.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Gessan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gessan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria≈32 est.≈1 in 774KGessan5
TR Türkiye≈4 est.≈1 in 22MĞessan3

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Gessan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye

    Also written Ğessan

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ğessan

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Ğessan

  • Uzbek name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ğessan

  • Russian name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Гессан, Ğessan

  • Hebrew given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Lebanon, Laos

    Also written גסאן, Gassan, Ġassān

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gessan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Gessan a male or female name?
Gessan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Gessan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 32 people named Gessan in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gessan.
How common is the name Gessan?
Mondonomo estimates about 32 people in Syria have Gessan as their first given name, about 1 in 774 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gessan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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