Gilead

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Gilead is a biblical Hebrew name for boys, meaning "heap of testimony" or "monument"

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gilead is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil

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.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GileadeLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Gileade in BR Brazil.

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)

Gilead is a biblical Hebrew name for boys, meaning "heap of testimony" or "monument." It refers to a mountainous region in the Bible and is also the name of three individuals, giving it a strong, historic, and significant feel.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gilead counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Gilead is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—607Gileade57
US United States—121—11
GY Guyana—32——
NL Netherlands—6—1
PL Poland—2——

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gilead is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Peru, United States, Venezuela

    Also written Galaad

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium

    Also written Galaad, Galäad, Galaâd

  • Hebrew given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: Hebrew, English, German

    Also written גלעד, Gilad, גילעד, גיל-עד, גל-עד

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gilead is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • The name Gilead is understood to mean "heap of witness" from the Hebrew words 'gal' (heap) and 'ed' (witness), or alternatively, "rocky region".

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • Represents the establishment of the tribe of Manasseh in the Transjordan region.

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • Rugged country or Heap of witness

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • Heap of witness; rugged country

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In English, biblical mtn.

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

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)

Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Gilead
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202271—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—64#52,382
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)199051—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—50#29,023
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)198029—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)198022—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)199020—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201511—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202110—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20099—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20248—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20228—

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

Where does the name Gilead come from?
Gilead is a biblical Hebrew name for boys, meaning "heap of testimony" or "monument." It refers to a mountainous region in the Bible and is also the name of three individuals, giving it a strong, hist… Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
What does the name Gilead mean?
Recorded meaning: Gilead is a biblical Hebrew name for boys, meaning "heap of testimony" or "monument."
In which country does Gilead have the most bearers?
Gilead is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled gileade.

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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, “Gilead”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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