Ghassan
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A former Arab kingdom in the Levant which functioned as a client state to the Byzantine Empire
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ghassan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- LBLebanon≈1 in 2.4K
- SYSyria≈1 in 3K
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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
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)
A former Arab kingdom in the Levant which functioned as a client state to the Byzantine Empire.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Ghassan is read(measured from records)
Ghassan is one spelling over 2 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.
- Arabic47%
prime, vigour (of youth)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English25%
A former Arab kingdom in the Levant which functioned as a client state to the Byzantine Empire.
as a wordkaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghassan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #778 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Ghassan | 115 |
| SY Syria | #326 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Ghassan | 53 |
| JO Jordan | #413 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Ghassan | 95 |
| LB Lebanon | #349 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Ghassan | 87 |
| US United States | — | 1,955 | 1 in 170K | 2K | Ghassan | 243 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Ghassan | 10 |
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. 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)
Ghassan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘Prime of youth’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ardor, vigor
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Hana Ghassanb. 1968BRpublic servant, accountant and Brazilian politician, governor of Pará
- Wael Ghassanb. 1984QAQatari swimmer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #7,696 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Ghassan mean, and where does it come from?
- A former Arab kingdom in the Levant which functioned as a client state to the Byzantine Empire. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ghassan a male or female name?
- Ghassan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ghassan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Ghassan in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghassan.
- How common is the name Ghassan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,955 people named Ghassan in 2020, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
- How common is Ghassan compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Ghassan is the 778th most common given name of 64,319 given names 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/ghassanThe 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, “Ghassan” — the 778th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.