Gelais
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gelais is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. In French, recorded as first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of geler.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of geler
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Gelais is read(measured from records)
Gelais is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English75%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gelais in English.
- French9.2%
first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of geler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese7.4%
second-person plural present indicative of gelar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
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 Gelais mean, and where does it come from?
- first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of geler Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gelais have the most bearers?
- Gelais is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “Gelais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.