Ghannam

surname · Latin script

Meaning: occupational name from ghannam ‘shepherd’

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

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

Ghannam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Jordan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria≈1 in 9.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 49K
  • USUnited States1 in 555K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Jordan (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,300 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
209 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Jordan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GhannamLatin(measured from records)
ГханнамCyrillic(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

occupational name from ghannam ‘shepherd’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ghannam 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 Ghannam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JO Jordan—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 4.8K—Ghannam40
EG Egypt—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 49K—Ghannam61
SY Syria#730≈2,000 est.≈1 in 9.5K—Ghannam22
SA Saudi Arabia—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 17K—Ghannam54
MA Morocco—≈780 est.≈1 in 46K—Ghannam35
US United States—5991 in 555K802Ghannam209
LB Lebanon—≈350 est.≈1 in 16K—Ghannam21
KW Kuwait—≈96 est.≈1 in 31K—Ghannam32

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Ghannam is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, Brazil, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ghannām

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Ghåñnâm

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ghannām, Ghannâm

33 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Razzuq Ghannam, b. 1882Ibrahim Ghannam, b. 1930Laila Ghannam, b. 1975Clara Ghannam, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Ghannam,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Ghannam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020802#31,009
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010599#37,229
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000431#46,523
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Ghannam mean, and where does it come from?
occupational name from ghannam ‘shepherd’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Ghannam?
A machine transcription gives /ɡhænəm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
In which country does Ghannam have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Ghannam in Jordan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghannam.
How common is the name Ghannam?
In the United States, the national register counted 599 people named Ghannam in 2010, about 1 in 555 thousand residents.
How common is Ghannam compared with other names?
In Syria, Ghannam is the 730th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ghannam” — the 730th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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