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Ghazi

#4,594 in 2025Boys' name

Warrior, conqueror, raider

Ghazi has been given to 267 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #4,594 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Ghazi, 2025

1 in 151,000

Ghazi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ghazi: meaning, origin, and history

Warrior, conqueror, raider

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ghazi means

Ghazi means “warrior, conqueror, raider”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 267 boys were recorded with the name Ghazi between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,594 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,796 in 2020 to #4,594 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,091 in 2015 to #4,594 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 Ghazi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,594
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ghazi 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ghazi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ghazis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ghazi was born before 2015 — so the typical Ghazi is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
267
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Ghazi 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
+14
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,202
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,497
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (22)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,594
2025

Spellings of Ghazi

Ghazi is not the most common spelling — Chaz is, with 29.2% against Ghazi's 0.79%.

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.

Ghazi around the world

Where Ghazi 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
    1996–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2023
    #6,723
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1990–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ghazi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,594
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,202
Best rank ever
#4,594
2025
Peak year
2024
22 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
267
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Ghazi

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

GhaliAmaziGhaithKhaziGhassanGhaelKamaziKaziRaziMaziAziKhamaziDamaziJamaziAhmaziDmaziEmaziDemaziCamaziGhaisGaziMaaziGhalebGhavin

Sibling names for Ghazi

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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