Ghadir

given name · Latin script

Meaning: 2 (ghadeer): brook, rivulet, small stream

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɡədɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ghadir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 70K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 309K
  • FIFinland1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

212 people, 2020

Sources
101 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Afrikaans

2 (ghadeer): brook, rivulet, small stream

Sources 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.

Where Ghadir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2121 in 1.6M183Ghadir101
SE Sweden1461 in 70K146—6
DK Denmark191 in 309K19——
FI Finland51 in 1.1M25—1
DE Germany———Ghadir25
LB Lebanon———Ghadir8

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ghadir is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Syria, Belgium, Mali

    Also written Ghadīr

41 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.

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)

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)

Informalمرحباً Ghadir،Hi Ghadir, (English)

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)

Attested in 21 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Ghadir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020183#37,052
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—146#6,600
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202096—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201993—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201890—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201780—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201670—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201555—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201443—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201335—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201231—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200930—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Ghadir?
A machine transcription gives /ɡədɪɹ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
Is Ghadir a male or female name?
Ghadir is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Ghadir mean?
Recorded meaning: 2 (ghadeer): brook, rivulet, small stream
In which country does Ghadir have the most bearers?
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.
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.

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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, “Ghadir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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