Gelon

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

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

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 558K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 623K
  • HRCroatia1 in 6.2Kas Gelo

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 Gelon 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.

Croatia (measured from records)

677 named Gelo, 2021

Sources
131 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 558K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gelon 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 Gelon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia677as Gelo1 in 6.2K677——
ES Spain430as Gelo1 in 116K430Gelon8
US United States346as Gelo1 in 961K365Gelon131
PL Poland127as Gelo1 in 301K72—1
FR France≈110 est.≈1 in 623K9—1
BE Belgium211 in 558K21—7
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines1as Gelo1 in 101K1——

677 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)

Gelon is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Spain, United States

    Also written Gélon, Gélo, Gélö, Gelōn, Gelo

  • Portuguese surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Gelo, Gelón, Geló, Ğelo, Gélo

  • Slovak surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Geľo, Gelo, Geloň

24 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)

Gelon 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 Esperanto, accusative singular of gelo

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Gelon,
InformalHi Gelon,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Gelon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200821#46,262
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191116—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—15#97,717
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)189115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19919—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Gelon?
A machine transcription gives /ɡəɫən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gelon have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 677 people named Gelo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gelon most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gelon is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 558 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gelon?
In Belgium, the national register counted 21 people named Gelon in 2008, about 1 in 558 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, “Gelon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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