Gamaliël
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Gamaliël is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,895 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: From Koine Greek Γαμαλιήλ (Gamaliḗl) from Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl) from Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל (Gamlīʾēl). Compare Classical Syriac ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ (Ḡamalīʾēl).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 34K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 115K
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
2,895 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gamaliel in US United States, PR Puerto Rico, NL Netherlands.
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)- Koine GreekΓαμαλιήλGamaliḗl(measured from records)
- AramaicגַמַלִיאיֵלḠamalīʾēl(measured from records)
- Biblical HebrewגַּמְלִיאֵלGamlīʾēl(measured from records)
From Koine Greek Γαμαλιήλ (Gamaliḗl) from Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl) from Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל (Gamlīʾēl). Compare Classical Syriac ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ (Ḡamalīʾēl).
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gamaliël 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,895 | 1 in 115K | 2.9K | Gamaliel | 140 |
| BR Brazil | — | 695 | 1 in 305K | 709 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 148 | 1 in 34K | 148 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 71 | 1 in 704K | 71 | — | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 17 | 1 in 1M | 17 | Gamaliel | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 2 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #460 | — | — | 5 | Gamaliel | 12 |
2,895 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gamaliël mean, and where does it come from?
- From Koine Greek Γαμαλιήλ (Gamaliḗl) from Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl) from Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל (Gamlīʾēl). Compare Classical Syriac ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ (Ḡamalīʾēl). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Gamaliël a male or female name?
- Gamaliël is a male 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Gamaliël?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Gamaliël, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gamaliel. After it come Brazil, Costa Rica, Spain and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gamaliël most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gamaliël is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gamaliël?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,895 people named Gamaliël in 2020, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
- How common is Gamaliël compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Gamaliël is the 460th most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gamali%C3%ABlThe 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, “Gamaliël” — ranked 5759th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.