Ghazal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡæzæl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ghazal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 10K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 14K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from a personal name based on Arabic ghazal ‘gazelle’. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (died 1111) was a famous Muslim sage.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ghazal is read(measured from records)
Ghazal is one spelling over 3 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%
,<: gazelle, deer
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English21%
A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ghazal in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Ghazal 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 | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Ghazal | 77 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Ghazal | 36 |
| SY Syria | #227 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Ghazal | 34 |
| MA Morocco | #574 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Ghazal | 40 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Ghazal | 56 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Ghazal | 46 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #740 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Ghazal | 61 |
| LB Lebanon | #735 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Ghazal | 40 |
| US United States | — | 531 | 1 in 626K | 826 | Ghazal | 180 |
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 — 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)
Ghazal is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a personal name based on Arabic ghazal ‘gazelle’. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (died 1111) was a famous Muslim sage.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
young gazelle, sun.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Amatory talk
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
lyric, poem;
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)
- Peter Ghazalb. 1961GBBritish medicine researcher
- Edwinb. 1965CAnot in their usual nameCanadian musician
- Ruba Ghazalb. 1977CACanadian politician
- Ali Ghazalb. 1992EGEgyptian association football player
- Salma Ghazalb. 1998USAmerican-born Jordanian footballer
- Khalil GhazalSwedish-Arabic rapper
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)
Attested in 56 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 679 | #35,638 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 531 | #41,038 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 430 | #46,614 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Ghazal come from?
- from a personal name based on Arabic ghazal ‘gazelle’. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (died 1111) was a famous Muslim sage. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Ghazal?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡæzæl/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Ghazal mean?
- In English, A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
- In which country does Ghazal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Ghazal in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghazal.
- How common is the name Ghazal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 531 people named Ghazal in 2010, about 1 in 626 thousand residents.
- How common is Ghazal compared with other names?
- In Syria, Ghazal is the 227th 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/ghazalThe 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, “Ghazal” — the 227th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.