Gela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: patronymisch zu Kurzform Gela; möglich zu Rufnamen mit ahd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- GEGeorgia1 in 235as გელა(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 91Kas Гела
- PLPoland1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Georgia (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
16,994 named გელა
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Гела in RU Russia, EE Estonia, CN China.
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)
patronymisch zu Kurzform Gela; möglich zu Rufnamen mit ahd. l-Suffix, auch zu Gertrud oder zu lat. Angela
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE Georgia | #26 | 16,994as გელა | 1 in 235 | 17K | Gela | 66 |
| HR Croatia | — | 5,933as Jela | 1 in 713 | 5.9K | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 91K | #2,933 | Гела | 112 |
| PL Poland | — | 728 | 1 in 53K | 728 | Gela | 11 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Гела | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 232as Jela | 1 in 9.1K | 232 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 21 | Гела | 4 |
16,994 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), counting the spelling გელა. 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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); SURS — resident population given names; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Gela 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 Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of gelō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of geler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In suk, spear-head
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In grt, to avoid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In euq-pro, room
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)
- Gela Charkvianib. 1939GEAmbassadors of Georgia
- Gela Kandelakib. 1940GESoviet and Georgian film director, actor, screenwriter, producer
- Gela Dumbadzeb. 1965GESoviet politician and diplomat
- Gela Ketashvilib. 1965GEGeorgian footballer (born 1965)
- Gela Bezhuashvilib. 1967GEdiplomat and educator
- Géla Babluanib. 1979GEGeorgian-French film director
- Gela Saghirashvilib. 1980GEGeorgian wrestler
- Gela Bolkvadzeb. 1995GEGeorgian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Gela Aprasidzeb. 1998GEGeorgian rugby union player
- Gela Zaalishvilib. 1999GEGeorgian judoka
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 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 728 | #570 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 676 | #575 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #2,880 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- 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 Gela?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒlə/ (IPA) for Georgian.
- What does the name Gela mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymisch zu Kurzform Gela; möglich zu Rufnamen mit ahd.
- Is Gela a male or female name?
- Gela is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gela have the most bearers?
- In Georgia, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named გელა, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gela is densest in Poland — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gela?
- In Poland, the national register counted 728 people named Gela in 2026, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Gela compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Gela is the 26th most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gelaThe 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, “Gela” — the 26th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.