Gelson

given name · Latin script

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

Gelson is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 86th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Gelle or Gell (see Gell ). See also Gilson .

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 8.4K(measured from records)
  • AOAngola≈1 in 2.5K
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 28K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

25,254 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Angola, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GelsonLatin(measured from records)
ГельсонCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Durham. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Gelle or Gell (see Gell ). See also Gilson .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gelson 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.

Where Gelson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#77625,2541 in 8.4K29KGelson130
AO Angola#86≈13,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K1Gelson34
DO Dominican Republic—≈380 est.≈1 in 28K—Gelson20
TZ Tanzania—≈370 est.≈1 in 159K—Gelson7
VE Venezuela—≈350 est.≈1 in 81K—Gelson15
PT Portugal—≈260 est.≈1 in 40KlistedGelson33
HN Honduras—≈130 est.≈1 in 72K—Gelson4

25,254 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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)

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

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Congo - Kinshasa, Cape Verde

    Also written Gëlsön

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gélson

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Gélson

37 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Gelson Cláudio, b. 1931Gelson Iezzi, b. 1939Gelson Fogazzi Rocha, b. 1952Gélson da Silva, b. 1967Gelson Rodrigues, b. 1982Gelson Fernandes, b. 1986Gelson Junior Saiotti, b. 1987Gelson Martins, b. 1995Gelson Dala, b. 1996

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 25 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Gelson
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—29K#1,140
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—28K#362
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202225K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—25K#912
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202025K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)201025K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)200024K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)199021K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)198016K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19709.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)19706.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)19605.7K—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

What does the name Gelson mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Durham. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Gelle or Gell (see Gell ). See also Gilson . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
Is Gelson a male or female name?
Gelson 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.
In which country does Gelson have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Gelson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gelson.
How common is the name Gelson?
In Brazil, the national register counted 25,254 people named Gelson in 2022, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
How common is Gelson compared with other names?
In Brazil, Gelson is the 776th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gelson” — the 776th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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