Ghazala
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: gazelle, deer. "[A] number of khariji women won renown for their prowess in battle, among them Ghazala, who
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡæzælə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ghazala is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 41K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 120K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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)
gazelle, deer. "[A] number of khariji women won renown for their prowess in battle, among them Ghazala, who
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
How Ghazala is read(measured from records)
Ghazala is one spelling over 4 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.
- Urdu41%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ghazala in Urdu.
- English26%
gazelle, a young deer, the sun
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Hindi14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ghazala in Hindi.
- Arabic8.1%
gazelle, deer. "[A] number of khariji women won renown for their prowess in battle, among them Ghazala, who
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Ghazala 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #330 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Ghazala | 64 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Ghazala | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,013 | 1 in 328K | 1K | Ghazala | 173 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 120K | listed | Ghazala | 96 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Ghazala | 8 |
| LY Libya | #758 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Ghazala | 12 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Ghazala | 31 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Ghazala | 1 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register. 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)
Ghazala 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.
Rising sun.
as a nameThe African book of names
Gacela
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)
- Ghazala al-Haruriyyab. 650IQLeader of the Kharijite movement
- Ghazala Wadoodb. 1954PKbadminton player
- Ghazala Hashmib. 1964USAmerican politician, academic administrator and educator (born 1964)
- Ghazala Khanb. 1986an honour killing in Denmark
- Ghazala Saddiqueb. 1994PKPakistani badminton player
- Ghazala LariINIndian politician
- Ghazala SaifiPKpolitician in Pakistan
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #12,325 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #12,325 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ghazala mean, and where does it come from?
- gazelle, deer. "[A] number of khariji women won renown for their prowess in battle, among them Ghazala, who Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Ghazala?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡæzælə/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Ghazala a male or female name?
- Ghazala is a female 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 Ghazala have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Ghazala in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghazala.
- How common is the name Ghazala?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,013 people named Ghazala in 2020, about 1 in 328 thousand residents.
- How common is Ghazala compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ghazala is the 330th most common given name of 77,659 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/ghazalaThe 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, “Ghazala” — the 330th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.