Ghannam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name from ghannam ‘shepherd’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ghannam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 4.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 9.2K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 11Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ghannam itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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’.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Ghannam | 61 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Ghannam | 40 |
| SY Syria | #730 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Ghannam | 22 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ghannam | 54 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Ghannam | 35 |
| US United States | — | 599 | 1 in 555K | 802 | Ghannam | 209 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ghannam | 21 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Ghannam | 32 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Razzuq Ghannamb. 1882IQIraqi journalist
- Ibrahim Ghannamb. 1930ILPalestinian artist (1930-1984)
- Laila Ghannamb. 1975PSPalestinian politician
- Clara Ghannamb. 1984FRPh.D. Université de La Rochelle 2009
- Jess GhannamUSPalestinian-American academic
- Ibrahim Ghannamresearcher
- Hajar Ghannamresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-4409-9415
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)Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 802 | #31,009 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 599 | #37,229 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 431 | #46,523 |
| US United States | wru 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.
- In which country does Ghannam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Ghannam in Egypt, 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghannamThe 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, “Ghannam” — the 730th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.