Ģe

given name · Latin script

Ģe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: in ancient China there existed a clan called Ge, whose descendants came to use Ge as their surname.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 70K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 217K
  • DKDenmark1 in 451K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,535 people, 2020

Sources
280 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ge in NL Netherlands, US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

in ancient China there existed a clan called Ge, whose descendants came to use Ge as their surname. Another source of the name is from an area named Ge during the Xia dynasty (22051766 BC) in present-day Henan province. The descendants of the rulers of Ge eventually adopted the place name as their surname.

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
  • Nordic Names
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ģe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ģe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,5351 in 217K3.1KGe280
NL Netherlands2481 in 70K131Ge32
BR Brazil801 in 2.6M354—2
ES Spain291 in 1.7M196—22
PL Poland221 in 1.7M28—2
DK Denmark131 in 451K29—2
FI Finland71 in 796K71—4

1,535 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ģe under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ģe mean, and where does it come from?
in ancient China there existed a clan called Ge, whose descendants came to use Ge as their surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1) and 2 other sources.
Is Ģe a male or female name?
Ģe is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Ģe have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Ģe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ge.
Where is Ģe most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ģe is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 70 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ģe?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,535 people named Ģe in 2020, about 1 in 217 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%A3e

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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, “Ģe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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