Gedion
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɠeɗion/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gedion is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 70K
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 11K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
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.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gedion 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #434 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Gedion | 31 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Gedion | 18 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Gedion | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Gedion | 18 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Gedion | 11 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 2 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 64 | 1 in 3.3M | 65 | Gedion | 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gedion Zelalemb. 1997DEAmerican soccer player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 65 | #24,646 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 64 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 64 | #56,233 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 2 | #96 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Gedion?
- A machine transcription gives /ɠeɗion/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- Is Gedion a male or female name?
- Gedion 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 Gedion have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Gedion in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gedion.
- How common is the name Gedion?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 64 people named Gedion in 2022, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
- How common is Gedion compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Gedion is the 434th most common given name of 56,552 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gedion?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gedionThe 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, “Gedion” — the 434th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.