Gér

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 267K(measured from records)
  • HUHungary≈1 in 305K
  • ARArgentina1 in 561K

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.

India (measured from records)

871 people

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 267K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Romanian

subst. I. Geru (Vieiu 33) ; - Gh. (I0 255) ; -1 (Glos ; 16 B IV 212 ; Isp I2; Giur 278 ; Cat) ; t., dal ; -leasa (17 B 1 186). 2. Gera b. ; m-te (AO XVI). 3. Ger /ea, R. (RI XI 54) ; -eni t. (Tec. II). 4. Geracu t. (Sd XVI). 5. + -old, Gerold (Puc) $i dr. Gerota. Gheabureu v. G h i a b u r 2.

Sources 4

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Nordic Names
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gér 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 Gér is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India8711 in 1.5M871—1
US United States2291 in 1.5M906—7
ES Spain1871 in 267K187—1
AR Argentina811 in 561K81——
BR Brazil531 in 4M53——
HU Hungary≈32 est.≈1 in 305K—Gér17
CH Switzerland81 in 1.1M8—1
DK Denmark51 in 1.2M5——

871 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gér is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Tunisia, Morocco

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Ger, Gèr, Ģęŗ, Gêr, Gër

  • French name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Poland, Canada

    Also written Ger, Gęr, ́ger, ̈ger, Gêr

  • Spanish name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Spain, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ger, Gěř, Ğēř, ̈ger

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gér is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mga, sharp

    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)

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

In which country does Gér have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 871 people named Gér, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gér most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gér is densest in Spain — about 1 in 267 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gér?
In India, the national register counted 871 people named Gér, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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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, “Gér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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