Gaga
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gaga is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: "mukte = mufte, besplatno".
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"mukte = mufte, besplatno"
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaga counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 5 | Gaga | 27 |
| PL Poland | — | 131 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 56 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 22 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 18 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Gaga is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, 1. only [O bi’ gaga. His only son. 2. single (vide gani).][ KO yino gaga 3 . solitary. ‘one alone, unique one’]
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In cau-and-pro, 1 fruit-stone 2 grain
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In nkr, fibrous sheathing (at the base of the petiole sheath of the flower) of the coconut tree
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In gaa, any ant with large mandibles, such as a soldier ant or driver ant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mnv, to smoke, as fish on a fire; to warm, as hands on a fire
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kne, act of chewing, munching, masticating
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)
- Gaga Chkhetianib. 1983GEGeorgian footballer
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 56 | #41,429 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 56 | #40,981 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 22 | #47,851 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #45,116 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #18,678 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #177,949 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #174,912 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #330,135 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Gaga mean, and where does it come from?
- "mukte = mufte, besplatno" Recorded by Wiktionary and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Gaga have the most bearers?
- Gaga is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled gaga.
What do you want to know about Gaga?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gagaThe 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, “Gaga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.