Gelese

surname · Latin script

Gelese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Gelese is also written ገለሰ in Ethiopic.

  • PLPoland1 in 9.6Mas Galasa(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gelese 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.

Poland (measured from records)

4 named Galasa, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
5 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 9.6M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland, as Galasa

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Gelese in other scripts: Ethiopic

(measured from records)
GeleseLatin(measured from records)
ገለሰGelese in Ethiopic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled ገለሰ in ET Ethiopia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Gelese is found

(measured from records)

Gelese 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 Gelese is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland4as Galasa1 in 9.6M2——
ZA South Africa———Gelese5
ET Ethiopia———ገለሰ3

4 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)

Gelese is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gelèse

14 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)

Gelese is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, of, from or relating to Gela

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gelese under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Gelese have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 4 people named Galasa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gelese most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Gelese itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Poland's: the national register counts about 1 in 9.6 million people named Galasa.
How common is the name Gelese?
In Poland, the national register counted 4 people named Galasa in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 million 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, “Gelese” — ranked 329411th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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