Entry № 3642 · Arabic origin

Ghassan Ghassan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GAS-sahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Youth / vigor (Ghassanid kingdom)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "youth / vigor (ghassanid kingdom)".

Ghassan is from the Arabic Ghassān.

Youth / vigor (Ghassanid kingdom) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

غسان
Transliteration
Ghassān
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡæ.sɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ghassan stands.

Ghassan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ghassans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ghassanid kingdom / Ghassan Kanafani
Arabic vigor of youth + Ghassanids Arab Christian kingdom 220-638 CE + Roman-Byzantine ally federation + pre-Islamic Arabic poetic + Ghassan Kanafani Palestinian writer 1936-1972
Arab + Palestinian

Names connected to Ghassan.

The number behind Ghassan.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ghassan reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.