Gega

surname · Latin script

Meaning: the Gheg (northern Albanian)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gega is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Albania it is the 53rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 74K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 105K
  • HRCroatia1 in 121K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

225 people, 2010

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

the Gheg (northern Albanian)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gega 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.

Where Gega is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2251 in 1.5M319Gega21
CH Switzerland—1141 in 74K114—1
BR Brazil—731 in 2.9M73——
HR Croatia—351 in 121K35——
FI Finland—301 in 186K30——
SE Sweden—251 in 408K25——
SI Slovenia—201 in 105K20——
AL Albania#53———Gega50

225 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gega is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Georgian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written გეგა

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Gęga

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Slovenia, Italy

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Гега

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, Philippines, United States

    Also written Géga

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gega 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 ngh, alternative form of dyee ka ("how to say")

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, third-person singular present of gegati

    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)

19201940196019802000Mehmet Gega, b. 1921Skënder Gega, b. 1963Marta Gęga, b. 1986Luiza Gega, b. 1988Adelina Gega, b. 1997

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Gega
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020319#66,829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010225#83,541
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000147#111,119
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024114#9,971
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—73#79,953
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202135#16,707
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202132—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#35,268
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—25#21,793
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—20#13,570
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Gega mean, and where does it come from?
the Gheg (northern Albanian) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Gega have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 225 people named Gega, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gega.
Where is Gega most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gega is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gega?
In the United States, the national register counted 225 people named Gega in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
How common is Gega compared with other names?
In Albania, Gega is the 53rd most common surname of 16,055 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gega” — the 53rd most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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