Gaki
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gaki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country. In Japanese, recorded as Rōmaji transcription of がき.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
- GRGreece≈1 in 678Kas Γάκη
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 Gaki 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈16 named Γάκη, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
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.
How Gaki is read(measured from records)
Gaki is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Japanese15%
Rōmaji transcription of がき
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
A restless ghost in Japanese mythology.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Greek15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gaki in Greek.
- Swahili15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gaki in Swahili.
- Arabic8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gaki in Arabic.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaki 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 678K | 9 | Gaki | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Gaki | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Gaki is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, to cackle, cluck (make the characteristic sound of a goose, chicken, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mnv, the west or southwest wind; to blow, of this wind
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #330,303 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gaki mean?
- In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of がき
- In which country does Gaki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 people named Γάκη in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gaki most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gaki is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.8 million people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gaki?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Gaki in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gakiThe 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, “Gaki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.