Gèlinas
surname · Latin script
Gèlinas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country. Recorded meaning: possibly from an augmentative of Old French gelin or geline ‘hen’. It is often found in Canada with Lacourse as a secondary surname. EEmSlESA bearer of the name from Saintonge was in Q city by 1666.
- CACanada≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 65K
- USUnited States1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 294 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gelinas in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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)possibly from an augmentative of Old French gelin or geline ‘hen’. It is often found in Canada with Lacourse as a secondary surname. EEmSlESA bearer of the name from Saintonge was in Q city by 1666.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gèlinas 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | #808 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Gelinas | 147 |
| US United States | — | 2,565 | 1 in 130K | 2.6K | Gelinas | 294 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Gelinas | 27 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 313K | — | Gelinas | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Gelinas | 12 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Gelinas | 2 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gelinas | 2 |
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. 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gèlinas mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly from an augmentative of Old French gelin or geline ‘hen’. It is often found in Canada with Lacourse as a secondary surname. EEmSlESA bearer of the name from Saintonge was in Q city by 1666. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gèlinas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Gèlinas in Canada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gelinas.
- How common is the name Gèlinas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,565 people named Gèlinas in 2010, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.
- How common is Gèlinas compared with other names?
- In Canada, Gèlinas is the 808th most common surname of 699,524 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Gèlinas” — the 808th most common surname in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.