Gelas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: second-person singular past historic of geler

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

/ʒəla/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gelas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 293K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M

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.

Belgium (measured from records)

40 people, 2008

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 293K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

second-person singular past historic of geler

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gelas 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 Gelas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium401 in 293K40Gelas14
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7—1
US United States——listedGelas40
GB United Kingdom———Gelas8
CA Canada———Gelas5
KE Kenya———Gelas5
TZ Tanzania———Gelas2

40 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gelas is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Gelás, Gélas, Gelãs

  • Turkish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ğelas

34 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)

Gelas 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 indicative of gelō

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

  • In Portuguese, second-person singular present indicative of gelar

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

  • In Indonesian, glass (drinking vessel; material)

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

  • In Javanese, glass (drinking vessel)

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

  • In Afrikaans, past participle of las

    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)

18001850190019502000Michel Gelas, b. 1814Bruno Gelas, b. 1945Gilles Gelas, b. 1958

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Gelas, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Gelas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200840#30,427
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247#79,838
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Gelas mean, and where does it come from?
second-person singular past historic of geler Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Gelas?
A machine transcription gives /ʒəla/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Gelas have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 40 people named Gelas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gelas.
Where is Gelas most common?
Gelas is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 293 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gelas?
In Belgium, the national register counted 40 people named Gelas in 2008, about 1 in 293 thousand residents.

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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, “Gelas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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