Gelu

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gelu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 60K
  • ISIceland1 in 117K

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.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,300 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
65 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GeluLatin(measured from records)
ገሉEthiopic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled ገሉ 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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gelu 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 Gelu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#446≈6,300 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Gelu65
CN China—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 830K—Gelu3
IT Italy—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 60K—Gelu16
ET Ethiopia—≈650 est.≈1 in 165K—ገሉ4
ES Spain—2091 in 239K218Gelu30
MD Moldova—251 in 135K25—5
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); e-services.md — living population register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

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

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Romania, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Gélu

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Venezuela, Romania, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gelù, Gélu

  • Turkish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Ğelu, Gelü

53 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)

Gelu 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 gmw-pro, yellow

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, frost

    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)

19201940196019802000Gelu Barbu, b. 1932Constantin Apostol, b. 1936Gelu Voican Voiculescu, b. 1941Gelu Niţu, b. 1949Gelu Radu, b. 1957Gelu Popescu, b. 1958Gelu Vlașin, b. 1966Gelu Duminică, b. 1977Gelu Velici, b. 1992

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 21 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Gelu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9#126,713

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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

Is Gelu a male or female name?
Gelu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Gelu have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Gelu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gelu.
How common is the name Gelu?
In Spain, the national register counted 209 people named Gelu, about 1 in 239 thousand residents.
How common is Gelu compared with other names?
In Romania, Gelu is the 446th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gelu” — the 446th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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