Gelpi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɣelpj/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Gelpi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 599 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- UYUruguay1 in 9.6K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 151K
- ARArgentina1 in 182K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
599 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gelpi
- Spanish:/ɣelpj/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)unexplained.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Gelpi is found
(measured from records)Gelpi 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 | — | 599 | 1 in 555K | 599 | Gelpi | 149 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 117K | listed | Gelpi | 10 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Gelpi | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 354 | 1 in 9.6K | 354 | Gelpi | 17 |
| ES Spain | — | 332 | 1 in 151K | 332 | Gelpi | 48 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #469 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Gelpi | 11 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Gelpi | 1 |
599 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ettore Gelpib. 1933ITItalian educator (1933–2002)
- Ricardo Gelpib. 1950ARArgentine physician and professor
- Leandro Gelpib. 1991UYUruguayan footballer
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gelpi mean, and where does it come from?
- unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gelpi?
- In Spanish /ɣelpj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gelpi?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 599 people named Gelpi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gelpi. After it come Italy, Cuba, Uruguay and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gelpi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gelpi is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 9.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gelpi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 599 people named Gelpi in 2010, about 1 in 555 thousand residents.
- How common is Gelpi compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Gelpi is the 469th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gelpiThe 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, “Gelpi” — ranked 37229th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.