Gẻ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gẻ is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Switzerland. Recorded meaning: in ancient China there existed a clan called Ge, whose descendants came to use Ge as their surname.
- BMBermuda
- ITItaly
- INIndia
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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ge in CH Switzerland, IT Italy, NL Netherlands and 3 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)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.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Nordic Names
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gẻ 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | — | 37 | Ge | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | — | Ge | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 131 | Ge | 3 |
| IN India | — | — | Ge | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | 7 | Ge | 2 |
| US United States | — | 3.1K | Ge | 18 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Gẻ 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 mkh-mvi, rag, dust cloth
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gẻ 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 Gẻ a male or female name?
- Gẻ is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gẻ have the most bearers?
- Gẻ is most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is most often spelled ge.
What do you want to know about Gẻ?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%E1%BA%BBThe 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, “Gẻ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.