Gee
surname · Latin script
Meaning: uncertain origin; perhaps a Scottish and Irish shortened form of McGee
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.9K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 9K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 453 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gêë in GH Ghana.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
uncertain origin; perhaps a Scottish and Irish shortened form of McGee
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gee 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Gee | 30 |
| US United States | — | 23,241 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Gee | 453 |
| GB United Kingdom | #737 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | listed | Gee | 245 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Gee | 27 |
| CA Canada | #997 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Gee | 195 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Gee | 58 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Gêë | 22 |
| AU Australia | #722 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Gee | 178 |
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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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)
Gee is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, N England, it is of very uncertain origin. Forms which cer¬ tainly belong here are not found before the 16th cent. The existence of the patr. Geeson points to a given name, or, less probably, an occupational name or nickname, but this as not been identified.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
this is a common name in northern England, of uncertain origin. The existence of a patronymic form Geeson points to a personal name, but this has not been satisfactorily identified. It may in fact be the Irish or Scottish name in an English context.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from any of several places called Ge or Gee, for example in Maine-et-Loire, derived from the Gallo-Roman domain name Gaiacum.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
reduced form of McGee, Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha ‘son of Aodh' (see McCoy).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
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)
- Kate Grenvilleb. 1950AUnot in their usual nameAustralian writer and teacher of creative writing
- Robbie Geeb. 1970GBBritish actor
- Ji Jin-heeb. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Ji Yun-namb. 1976KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean footballer
- Ji Seung-hyunb. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Ji Hyeon-ub. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and musician
- Ji Chang-wookb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Ki Bo-baeb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean archer
- Ki Sung-yuengb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- Ji Dong-wonb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
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 36 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 24K | #1,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 23K | #1,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 23K | #1,528 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gee mean, and where does it come from?
- uncertain origin; perhaps a Scottish and Irish shortened form of McGee Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Gee?
- In the etymology graph, Gay and Jee are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gee?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gee have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Gee in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gee.
- How common is the name Gee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,241 people named Gee in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Gee compared with other names?
- In Australia, Gee is the 722nd most common surname of 552,428 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geeThe 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, “Gee” — the 722nd most common surname in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.