Gaweł
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡavɛw/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaweł is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin Gallus.
- PLPoland1 in 4.1K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 551K
- NONorway≈1 in 1.2M
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
9,306 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ultimately from Latin Gallus.
Sources 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaweł 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #956 | 9,306 | 1 in 4.1K | 4.7K | Gaweł | 57 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 551K | — | Gaweł | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 8.9M | — | Gaweł | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Gaweł | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Gaweł | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Gaweł | 2 |
9,306 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bronisław Gawełb. 1879PLPolish stage actor
- Antoni Gawełb. 1901PLPolish geologist
- Łukasz Gawełb. 1970PLPolish curator, cultural studies scholar
- Przemysław Gawełb. 1987PLPolish chemist
- Rafał GawełPLPolish activist
- Kinga GawełPLresearcher
- Damian GawelPLnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Małgorzata GawełPLPolish neurologist
- Anna GawełPLPolish pedagogue
- Anna GawełPLPolish handball player and referee
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.7K | #408 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.6K | #445 |
Reference works 5
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- What does the name Gaweł mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Latin Gallus. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Gaweł?
- In the etymology graph, Gallo, Gall and Gallus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gaweł?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡavɛw/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Gaweł have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Gaweł, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaweł.
- Where is Gaweł most common?
- Gaweł is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gaweł?
- In Poland, the national register counted 9,306 people named Gaweł in 2026, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaweł compared with other names?
- In Poland, Gaweł is the 956th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gaweł?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gawe%C5%82The 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, “Gaweł” — the 956th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.