Gibran
Masculine · “one who mends or restores”
Gibran comes from an Arabic root that means mending: setting a broken bone, making whole what was cracked. The same root gives algebra its name, through the Arabic al-jabr, the restoring of what has been taken apart. It is a Lebanese and Syrian name above all, and it reached English-speaking countries with families from those places.
How old is the name Gibran?
Gibran first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Gibran alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,200 people named Gibran are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Gibran most popular?
Gibran peaked in 1993, reaching #2257 nationally. Today it ranks #4707, 2,450 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
Where it comes from
From Jibran to Gibran
The story of Gibran
The name belongs to the Levant, and to Lebanon in particular, where it has been used by Christian and Muslim families alike for centuries. Arabic spells it Jibran and French clerks in Beirut wrote it Gibran, which is the spelling that traveled: through Egypt and Brazil and the United States, wherever Lebanese families settled in the great emigrations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In English-speaking countries it is now better known as a family name than a first name, but in Arabic both uses are ordinary.
Meaning
one who mends or restores
Arabic Jibran, from the root j-b-r, to set a bone, to repair, to console. The same root gives jabr, restoration, which English borrowed inside the word algebra.
How the name formed
- Jibran
- Gibran
Related forms: جبران · Jibran · Gibran
Pronouncing Gibran
jib-RAHN
Two syllables with the stress at the end, and a j sound at the front despite the g. American English often says GIB-ran with a hard g instead, which is common enough that families answer to both.
Nicknames for Gibran
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 201441 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2257reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- −34.4%21 in 2025, from 32
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Gibran in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- جبران in Arabic — transliteration
- Jibran in Arabic — spelling variant
- Gibran in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Arizona.
Gibrans among us
people named Gibran are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 81,337 born in 2025 was named Gibran
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Benno test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Gibran's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Benno climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Benno's path sketches the road Gibran is walking now.
Gibran sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Gibran beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Gibran in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is documented and unusual: repair rather than strength or beauty.
- It is recognized across the Arabic-speaking world and in Latin America too.
- Two syllables and six letters make it easy to write in any alphabet that uses Latin letters.
- English readers see a g and say a hard one; the Arabic j sound is lost more often than not.
- Jibran and Gibran are both correct transliterations, so paperwork within one family can differ.
- It is strongly associated with one literary surname, and the name is often assumed to be a tribute.
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Frequently asked
- How many Gibrans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Gibran are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Gibran in 2025?
- Gibran ranks #4707 among US boy names in 2025, with 21 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Gibran?
- About 1 in every 81,337 US boys born in 2025 was named Gibran — 21 in all.
- Will my child share the name Gibran with classmates?
- Gibran will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Gibran
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