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Ghassan

#7,340 in 2025Boys' name

Youth

Ghassan has been given to 407 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #7,340 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Ghassan, 2025

1 in 301,000

Ghassan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ghassan: meaning, origin, and history

Youth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ghassan means

Ghassan means “youth”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 407 boys were recorded with the name Ghassan between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,945 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,176 in 2020 to #7,340 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,362 in 2015 to #7,340 in 2025.

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 Ghassan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,340
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ghassan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ghassan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ghassans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ghassan was born before 2009 — so the typical Ghassan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
407
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Ghassan 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
−1,602
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−164
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,978
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.9%
Peak was 2016 (19)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,945
1980

Spellings of Ghassan

Ghassan is not the most common spelling — Hassan is, with 65.7% against Ghassan's 2.2%.

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.

Where Ghassan is used

Across 1910–2025, Ghassan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ghassan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ghassan around the world

Where Ghassan 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
    2010–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1983–2025
    #6,282
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–1977
    #455
    in 1977

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ghassan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,340
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 164
Best rank ever
#3,945
1980
Peak year
2016
19 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
407
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Ghassan

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

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Sibling names for Ghassan

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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