Gelée

surname · Latin script

Meaning: frost

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

  • FRFrance≈1 in 370K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain≈1 in 6M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈180 people, est.

Record sources
100 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 370K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gelee in FR France.

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)

frost

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Gelée 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 Gelée is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈180 est.≈1 in 370K20Gelee100
ES Spain≈8 est.≈1 in 6M—Gelée1

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). 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)

Gelée is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Gelee, Gélee

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gelee

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gelee

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gelee

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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
16001700180019002000Claude Lorrain, b. 1600Alain Gelee, b. 1950Maryline Gelée, b. 1956

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)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, 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

What does the name Gelée mean, and where does it come from?
frost Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Gelée?
In the etymology graph, Geada, Geler and Helada are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Gelée have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 183 people named Gelée in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gelee.
How common is the name Gelée?
Mondonomo estimates about 180 people in France have Gelée as their first surname, about 1 in 370 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Gelée”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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