Gellé
surname · Latin script
Gellé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 81K(inferred from the name graph)
- SOSomalia≈1 in 19K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 120K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈910 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gelle in FR France, US United States, PH Philippines.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gellé 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Gelle | 13 |
| FR France | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 147 | Gelle | 152 |
| SO Somalia | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 4 | — | — |
| US United States | 383 | 1 in 869K | 480 | Gelle | 18 |
| MG Madagascar | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 1 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 44 | 1 in 124K | 44 | — | — |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean-Baptiste Gelléb. 1777LULuxembourgish politician (1777-1847)
- Marie-Ernest Gelléb. 1834FRFrench physician
- Ernest Gelléb. 1845FRFrench politician
- Alphonse Gelléb. 1864FRBelgian architect
- Georges Gelléb. 1865FRFrench physician (1865-1913)
- Pierre Gelléb. 1878FRFrench water polo player and swimmer
- Serge Gelléb. 1964MGMalagasy politician
- Jean-Marie Gelléb. 1968FRFrench politician
- Guillaume Gelléb. 1969FRFrench academic and official
- Albane Gelléb. 1971FRFrench poet
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 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MG Madagascar | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #120 |
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
- In which country does Gellé have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 910 people named Gellé in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gelle.
- How common is the name Gellé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 383 people named Gellé in 2010, about 1 in 869 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gellé?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gell%C3%A9The 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, “Gellé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.