Gildas
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Origine celtique, signifie « celui qui voit »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒilda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gildas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Benin it is the 11th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 2.1K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 2.6K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Origine celtique, signifie « celui qui voit ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gildas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #196 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Gildas | 7 |
| CM Cameroon | #291 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Gildas | 20 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 7.8K | Gildas | 268 |
| BJ Benin | #11 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Gildas | 27 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #12 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Gildas | 13 |
| TG Togo | #704 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Gildas | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 35 | 1 in 6M | 35 | Gildas | 15 |
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 prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Gildas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Nom breton, d’origine celtique; sens obscur.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Gildasb. 500FR6th-century British monk, writer and saint
- Gildas Molgatb. 1927CACanadian politician
- Gildas Bourdetb. 1947FRFrench actor, theatre director and playwright
- Gildas Le Lidecb. 1947FRFrench diplomat
- Gildas Thomasb. 1953FRFrench singer
- Gildas Philippeb. 1973FRFrench yacht racer
- Gildas Goldsztejnb. 1982chess player
- Gildas Kiwoko Mouyabib. 1986CGCongolese footballer
- Gildas Koumondjib. 1993BJBeninese swimmer
- Gildas GâtebléFRbotanist
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)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2013 | 7.8K | #2,541 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1956 | 50 | #781 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 35 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34 | #85,084 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 25 | #44,076 |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Gildas?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒilda/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Gildas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Origine celtique, signifie « celui qui voit ».
- Is Gildas a male or female name?
- Gildas 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 Gildas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Gildas in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gildas.
- How common is the name Gildas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 35 people named Gildas in 2022, about 1 in 6.0 million residents.
- How common is Gildas compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Gildas is the 196th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gildasThe 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, “Gildas” — the 196th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.