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Ghada

Girls' name

Graceful woman

Ghada has been given to 131 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Ghada, 2021

1 in 565,000

Ghada over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ghada: meaning, origin, and history

Graceful woman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ghada means

Ghada means “graceful woman”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ghada is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɣaː.da/ for Ghada.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 131 girls were recorded with the name Ghada between 1977 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1978; its best national rank was #6,571 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ghada?

Ghada had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ghada sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ghada. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ghadas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ghada was born before 2000 — so the typical Ghada is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
131
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Ghada rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (9)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,571
1978

Spellings of Ghada

Ghada is not the most common spelling — Ada is, with 27.6% against Ghada's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ghada around the world

Where Ghada ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1979–2019
    #7,567
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1997–1997
    #1,823
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ghada by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,571
1978
Peak year
1978
9 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
131
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ghada

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ghada

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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