Gella
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Bom when the camels save too little milk to
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gella is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Bom when the camels save too little milk to
Sources 1
- A Handbook of African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gella counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 633 | — |
| US United States | — | 205 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 175 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 45 | — |
| FR France | — | 6 | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Gella 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 sga, third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive conjunct of gellaid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, the fleshy underpart of a fish’s jaw; (= Basque cococha)
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)
- Maria Gellab. 1890PLPolish actress (1890–1970)
- Kazimierz Gellab. 1892PLPolish actor
- Agustín Vicente Gellab. 1904ESSpanish politician
- José Gella Iturriagab. 1907ESSpanish ethnographer, historian and writer
- Aleksander Gellab. 1922PLPolish sociologist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.2K | #1,740 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 633 | #7,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 205 | #95,461 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 175 | #18,300 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 175 | #18,247 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 154 | #113,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 132 | #121,058 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45 | #112,812 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 15 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- 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
- What does the name Gella mean, and where does it come from?
- Bom when the camels save too little milk to Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
- How do you pronounce Gella?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gella have the most bearers?
- Gella is most frequently recorded in India.
What do you want to know about Gella?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gellaThe 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, “Gella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.