Ghazal: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Ghazal – Meaning: A gazelle, used as a term for a graceful, delicate person – Origin: Persian, from Arabic – Gender: Girl


Ghazal is a Persian, from Arabic girl's name meaning “A gazelle, used as a term for a graceful, delicate person”. It appears in our list of 175+ Persian Baby Girl Names That Are Poetic and Rare.

Meaning & Origin of Ghazal

Meaning: A gazelle, used as a term for a graceful, delicate person.

Origin: Persian, from Arabic.

A common claim: Often described as a form of Persian/Urdu love poetry, sometimes also 'gazelle.' Actually: As a personal name, Ghazal traces specifically to 'gazelle' — the love-poem sense is a separate, similarly spelled word.

Source: Wiktionary.

Popularity of Ghazal

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration birth-name data, 1988–2024.

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