Gagat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: jet (very black form of coal)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡəɡæt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gagat is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
- PLPoland
- MYMalaysia
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
jet (very black form of coal)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Gagat is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, jet (a very black form of coal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, jet (coal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In knb, tribe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, GAGÁT s. n. (Min.) Jais.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Przemysław GagatPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-9077-439X
- Maciej GagatPLPolish molecular biologist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 236 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 236 | #13,812 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 230 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 230 | #14,392 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 41 | #50,461 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #14,128 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #7,190 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Gagat mean, and where does it come from?
- jet (very black form of coal) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gagat?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəɡæt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Gagat have the most bearers?
- Gagat is most frequently recorded in India.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gagatThe 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, “Gagat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.