Gelé
surname · Latin script
Meaning: past participle of geler (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Gelé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 128K
- NONorway1 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). 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
≈680 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, 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 Gele in FR France, US United States, PH Philippines.
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)past participle of geler
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gelé is found
(measured from records)Gelé 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 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 96 | Gele | 136 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 375K | 1 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 150 | Gele | 21 |
| PH Philippines | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Gele | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 80 | 1 in 128K | 80 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Gelé is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, jelly (a dessert)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, jelly
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)- Denis GeléFRparticle physicist at University of Strasbourg
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gelé mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of geler Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gelé?
- Mondonomo estimates about 679 people named Gelé in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gele. After it come Congo - Kinshasa, United States, Philippines and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gelé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Gelé in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gelé?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gel%C3%A9The 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, “Gelé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.