Gis
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: first/second-person singular present indicative of gésir
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 757K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 52K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 108K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
formed from surname, first name, and patronymic initials
Sources 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gis is read(measured from records)
Gis is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- French43%
first/second-person singular present indicative of gésir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish34%
chalk (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.3%
Initialism of gas injection system.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Gis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Gis | 2 |
| BE Belgium | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 4 | Gis | 5 |
| BR Brazil | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 27 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 757K | 4 | Gis | 51 |
| ES Spain | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 5 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)
Gis is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, formed from surname, first name, and patronymic initials
as a nameRussian Surnames
Plg. Stulga, Stulgas, Stūlgė, Stiilgis (žr.). Pravardinės kilmės pvd., sietinos su liet. stulgys „brastinis tilvikas (Tringa ochropus); rėksnys“ (LKŽ XIII 1022), stulgus „pailgai apvalainas, ovalus; išdidus, išpuikęs“ (ten pat, 1022—1023) ar pan
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Plg. Piragis, Pyragis, Piragius (žr.). Pravardinės kilmės pvd., sietinos su liet. pyragius „pyragininkas; pyragų mėgėjas“ (LKŽ IX 1084) ar pan. Plg. dar Pyragas (žr.)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #40,641 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Gis come from?
- formed from surname, first name, and patronymic initials Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Gis?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Gis a male or female name?
- Gis is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Gis mean?
- In French, first/second-person singular present indicative of gésir
- In which country does Gis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 945 people named Gis in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gis.
- How common is the name Gis?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Gis, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gisThe 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, “Gis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.