Gessi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gessi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: oriundo de Gessopalena ou de localidades setentrionais chamadas Gessi/Gesso, ligadas a minas de gesso.
- BRBrazil1 in 29K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 130K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 345K
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)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
7,236 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
oriundo de Gessopalena ou de localidades setentrionais chamadas Gessi/Gesso, ligadas a minas de gesso
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gessi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 7,236 | 1 in 29K | 9.7K | Gessi | 65 |
| IT Italy | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 962K | listed | Gessi | 17 |
| US United States | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Gessi | 33 |
| UY Uruguay | 26 | 1 in 130K | 26 | Gessi | 5 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Gessi | 7 |
| HN Honduras | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 835K | — | Gessi | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 2 |
7,236 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); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gessi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, first-person singular perfect active indicative of gerō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, verbal of necessity of guidid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Sonhy Sefilb. 1994FRnot in their usual nameFrench association football player
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 9.7K | #2,219 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 7.8K | #1,091 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 7.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 7.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 6.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.9K | #2,121 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 5.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.9K | #2,434 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Gessi mean?
- Recorded meaning: oriundo de Gessopalena ou de localidades setentrionais chamadas Gessi/Gesso, ligadas a minas de gesso
- Is Gessi a male or female name?
- Gessi 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.
- In which country does Gessi have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Gessi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gessi.
- Where is Gessi most common?
- Gessi is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gessi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,236 people named Gessi in 2022, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gessiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gessi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.