Gadis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: maiden, young girl
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡadis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gadis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 92K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 147K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
maiden, young girl
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gadis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Gadis | 98 |
| SG Singapore | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Gadis | 5 |
| US United States | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | listed | Gadis | 12 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Gadis | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 808K | — | Gadis | 12 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Gadis | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
Gadis 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 bbc, to sell
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.
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 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Gadis mean, and where does it come from?
- maiden, young girl Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gadis?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡadis/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Gadis a male or female name?
- Gadis is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gadis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Gadis in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gadis.
- How common is the name Gadis?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13,000 people in Indonesia have Gadis as their first given name, about 1 in 21 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Gadis?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gadisThe 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, “Gadis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.