Gigel
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡidʒel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gigel is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 459K
- MDMoldova1 in 3.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gigel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
109 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gigel 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.
109 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); e-services.md — living population register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)- Gigel Anghelb. 1955RORomanian wrestler
- Gigel Valentin Calcanb. 1965RORomanian politician
- Gigel Jianub. 1968RORomanian politician from Motru, Gorj County
- Gigel Sorinel Știrbub. 1971RORomanian politician
- Gigel Comanb. 1978RORomanian footballer
- Gigel Eneb. 1982RORomanian footballer
- Gigel GrigoreRORomanian politician
- Gigel GălățanuRORomanian politician from Crețești, Vaslui County
- Gigel SavaRORomanian politician from Horia, Constanța County
- Gigel MilitaruROPh.D. University of Bucharest 1994
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).
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 126 | #6,069 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 109 | #14,801 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 5 | #17,101 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #23,759 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1 | #7,454 |
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
- How do you pronounce Gigel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡidʒel/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- Is Gigel a male or female name?
- Gigel is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Spain (INE).
- In which country does Gigel have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 109 people named Gigel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gigel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gigel is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gigel?
- In Spain, the national register counted 109 people named Gigel, about 1 in 459 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gigel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gigelThe 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, “Gigel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.