Gh

Locally spelled Ğh in LY Libya.

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

Gh is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Arabic40%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Gh in Arabic.

• English13%

  Initialism of growth hormone.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish11%

  initialism of Gran Hermano, the Spanish-language version of the reality show Big Brother.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

• English surname15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ghana, United States, Germany, Syria

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Ğh, G'H, Ģh, Gh', Ğ-H

• Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Ghana, United States, Iran

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Gĥ, Ğĥ, Ģh

• Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, Peru, Spain, United States

  Also written G-H, G'H, Ğh, Ģh, Ğĥ

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written G-H

• French surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Syria, Ghana

  Also written G'H, Ğh, Ğĥ, Ģ'H, G-H

• a separate surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Nigeria, Ghana

  Also written Ģh, Ğh

56 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.

Gh is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Symbol for gigahenry, an SI unit of electrical inductance equal to 10⁹ henrys.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Vietnamese, The letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Esperanto, A digraph used in the h-sistemo to represent ĝ.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Irish, A digraph in Irish orthography

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Gh mean?

In English, Initialism of growth hormone.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Gh?

Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Gh in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gh. After it come Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Gh?

Mondonomo estimates about 11,000 people in Syria have Gh as their first surname, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

How common is Gh compared with other names?

In Syria, Gh is the 110th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.