Using `find` to find a file in PATH

I would like to be able to search all my $PATH for files matching a given pattern. For example, if my PATH is /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin and there's a /usr/local/bin/gcc-4 and a /usr/bin/gcc-12, I would like to be able to search for gcc-* to find them both. The trivial approach of course does not work:

find ${PATH} -name "gcc-*"

this naive approach does work:

find $(echo "${PATH}" | sed -e 's|:| |g') -name "gcc-*"

but of course this is breaks if PATH holds any weird characters like space and the like. So how can I achieve this in a safe way? My shell is sh.