Gaëlle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Gaël
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡaɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaëlle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 24th most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 820(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.4K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 5.6K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 820 (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, 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 Gaelle in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium 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)
a female given name, masculine equivalent Gaël
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaëlle 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #216 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 47K | Gaelle | 357 |
| CM Cameroon | #24 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 820 | — | Gaelle | 41 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #251 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Gaelle | 12 |
| BE Belgium | #416 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 10 | Gaelle | 90 |
| US United States | — | 936 | 1 in 355K | 924 | Gaelle | 197 |
| CH Switzerland | #974 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Gaelle | 50 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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)
Gaëlle 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 French, Feminine form of Gaël.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Gaëlle Macéb. 1953FRFrench screenwriter
- Gaëlle Josseb. 1960FRFrench poet and novelist
- Gaëlle Legrandb. 1961FRFrench actress
- Gaëlle Bunietb. 1978FRFrench rower
- Eva Greenb. 1980FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Gaëlle Bonab. 1980FRFrench actress
- Gaëlle Skrelab. 1983FRFrench basketball player (born 1983)
- Gaëlle Garcia Diazb. 1988BEBelgian model
- Gaëlle Enganamouitb. 1992CMCameroonian footballer
- Gaëlle CoqueugniotFRancient historian and classical archaeologist specializing in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 13K | #733 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 10 | #787 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Gaëlle a male or female name?
- Gaëlle 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.
- What does the name Gaëlle mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Gaël Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gaëlle?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Gaëlle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Gaëlle in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaelle.
- How common is the name Gaëlle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 936 people named Gaëlle in 2020, about 1 in 355 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaëlle compared with other names?
- In France, Gaëlle is the 216th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gaëlle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ga%C3%ABlleThe 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, “Gaëlle” — the 216th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.