Ghadir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 2 (ghadeer): brook, rivulet, small stream
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡhadiɾ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Ghadir is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 70K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 309K
- FIFinland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
212 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)2 (ghadeer): brook, rivulet, small stream
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ghadir 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.
212 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ghadir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
stagnant water; pond; pool
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ghadir Mounibb. 1984USEgyptian-American actress
- Ghadir ShafieILPalestinian activist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ghadir?
- In Turkish /ɡhadiɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Ghadir a male or female name?
- Ghadir is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- What does the name Ghadir mean?
- Recorded meaning: 2 (ghadeer): brook, rivulet, small stream
- Which countries have the most people named Ghadir?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 212 people named Ghadir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghadir. After it come Sweden, Denmark and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ghadir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ghadir is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 70 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ghadir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 212 people named Ghadir in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ghadir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghadirThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ghadir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.