Ghattas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ghattas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- LBLebanon≈1 in 15Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 22K
- SYSyria≈1 in 60Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)unexplained.
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)Ghattas 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 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Ghattas | 94 |
| US United States | 709 | 1 in 469K | 923 | Ghattas | 176 |
| SY Syria | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Ghattas | 9 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ghattas | 28 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Ghattas | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Ghattas | 40 |
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)- Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattasb. 1843ILPalestinian Christian nun and saint (1843–1927)
- Isaac Ghattasb. 1909roman-catholic archbishop (1909-1977)
- Ignatius Ghattasb. 1920USRoman Catholic bishop (1920–1992)
- Mona Latif-Ghattasb. 1946CACanadian writer (1946–2021)
- Faten Ghattasb. 1964TNTunisian swimmer
- Kim Ghattasb. 1977LBDutch-Lebanese journalist
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 923 | #27,651 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 709 | #32,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 514 | #40,139 |
| 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 Ghattas mean, and where does it come from?
- unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Ghattas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Ghattas in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghattas.
- How common is the name Ghattas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 709 people named Ghattas in 2010, about 1 in 469 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghattasThe 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, “Ghattas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.