Gaza
loc · Latin script
Meaning: strip of land, town, Mediterranean
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gaza is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- ATAustria
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
strip of land, town, Mediterranean
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaza counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 1 | Gaza | 7 |
| US United States | — | 497 | Gaza | 162 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Gaza | 30 |
| AT Austria | — | — | Gaza | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Gaza | 22 |
| PL Poland | — | 87 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 65 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 57 | — | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gaza is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Gazer [Gezer]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Origin unidentified.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In cau-and-pro, hoe, mattock
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Polish, Gaza (a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Theodorus Gazab. 1398GRGreek Renaissance humanist scholar
- Bernhard von Gazab. 1881DEGerman rower (1881–1917)
- Wilhelm Gazab. 1883DEGerman physician and surgeon (1883–1936)
- Gaza Henry Mikab. 1891USSlovak American attorney, journalist and editor, member of Slovak League
- Ivan Gazab. 1894RUSoviet revolutionary of Estonian origin (1894-1933)
- Jürgen von Gazab. 1920DEGerman navy officer and world war II U-boat commander
- Sylke von Gazab. 1976DEGerman painter
- Francesca Gazab. 1995CHSwiss-Italian singer with Romanian roots
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 497 | #43,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 485 | #47,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 427 | #46,839 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 87 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 87 | #32,998 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 80 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 80 | #35,658 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 65 | #86,981 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 57 | #40,798 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 57 | #40,491 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gaza mean, and where does it come from?
- strip of land, town, Mediterranean Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Gaza have the most bearers?
- Gaza is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled gaza.
What do you want to know about Gaza?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gazaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gaza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.