Ge-Ar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ge-Ar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.
- CACanada≈1 in 6.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 8M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.4M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 809K (inferred from the name graph)
≈83 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gear in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more.
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(measured from records)
- Middle Englishgere(measured from records)
- Old Norsegervi(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*garwijaną“to prepare”(measured from records)
- OldEnglish(measured from records)
From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ge-Ar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Ge-Ar | 9 |
| US United States | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 8M | 2.1K | Gear | 280 |
| BR Brazil | 33 | 1 in 6.4M | 33 | — | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 809K | — | Gear | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 9.4M | — | Gear | 132 |
| CA Canada | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | — | Gear | 81 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Gear | 54 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ge-Ar mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Ge-Ar a male or female name?
- Ge-Ar 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 Ge-Ar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 people named Ge-Ar in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ge-ar.
- How common is the name Ge-Ar?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 33 people named Ge-Ar in 2022, about 1 in 6.4 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/ge-arThe 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, “Ge-Ar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.