Geler
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: to freeze
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɣeleɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Geler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 72K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 188K
- PLPoland1 in 709K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
60 people
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
comparative degree of gel
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Geler is read(measured from records)
Geler is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Geler in Spanish.
- Turkish19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Geler in Turkish.
- English14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Geler in English.
- French14%
to freeze
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Croatian10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Geler in Croatian.
- German7.0%
comparative degree of gel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Geler 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.
60 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Geler is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of gelō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, comparative degree of geel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, catafalque, bière
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #92,187 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 59 | #11,826 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 55 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 50 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 28 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 28 | #72,864 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,055 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 18 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
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
- Where does the name Geler come from?
- comparative degree of gel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Geler?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣeleɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Geler mean?
- In French, to freeze
- What are other forms of the name Geler?
- In the etymology graph, Gel and Gelée are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Geler have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 60 people named Geler, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Geler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Geler is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Geler?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 60 people named Geler, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Geler?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gelerThe 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, “Geler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.