Gec
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 70K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 15K
- HRCroatia1 in 45K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Geç in TR Türkiye.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gec 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.
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)
Gec 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 Azerbaijani, late (proximate in time)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, jacket
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)
- Ljudmila Plesničar Gecb. 1931SISlovene archaeologist
- Medeja GecSIresearcher
- Vida GecSIresearcher
- Sandi GecSIresearcher
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 138 | #3,268 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 93 | #8,438 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 76 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 58 | #26,108 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 58 | #9,915 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 31 | #68,006 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #69,819 |
Reference works 2
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Gec?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gec have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Gec in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geç.
- Where is Gec most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gec is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gec?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 138 people named Gec, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Gec compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Gec is the 926th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gec?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gecThe 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, “Gec” — the 926th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.