Gelman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: different form of Geller (iii)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gelman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 113Kas Гельман(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 132Kas Helman
- RURussia≈1 in 147Kas Гельман
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 Gelman 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
2,514 named Helman, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Гельман in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, SC Seychelles and Helman in PL Poland.
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)
different form of Geller (iii).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gelman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,514as Helman | 1 in 132K | 3.6K | Gelman | 299 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Гельман | 112 |
| PL Poland | — | 793as Helman | 1 in 48K | 399 | Helman | 39 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Гельман | 18 |
| AR Argentina | — | 355as Helman | 1 in 128K | 355 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 160as Helman | 1 in 73K | 160 | — | 1 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Gelman | 43 |
| DK Denmark | — | 14 | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
| SC Seychelles | #334 | — | — | — | Гельман | 1 |
2,514 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling helman. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Gelman 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.
variant of Geller 3.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Jacques Gelmanb. 1912MXMexican film producer (1912–1986)
- Woody Gelmanb. 1915USAmerican publisher and cartoonist (1915–1978)
- Polina Gelmanb. 1919UASoviet Air Force officer, Hero of the Soviet Union
- Juan Gelmanb. 1930BOArgentine poet (1930-2014)
- Larry Gelmanb. 1930USAmerican actor (1930–2021)
- Alexander Gelmanb. 1933ROSoviet-Russian writer
- Marat Gelmanb. 1960RURussian politician
- Andrew Gelmanb. 1965USAmerican statistician
- Kimiko Gelmanb. 1966USAmerican actress
- Brett Gelmanb. 1976USAmerican actor and comedian
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,460 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,291 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,086 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 258 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #92,083 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #31,316 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #133,117 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #138,310 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Gelman mean, and where does it come from?
- different form of Geller (iii). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Gelman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Helman, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gelman?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 14 people named Gelman, about 1 in 419 thousand residents.
- How common is Gelman compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Gelman is the 334th most common surname of 2,002 surnames 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/gelmanThe 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, “Gelman” — the 334th most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.