Gester
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gester is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 293K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- BRBrazil1 in 3.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 293K (inferred from the name graph)
57 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Gester 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 57 | 1 in 3.7M | 57 | Gester | 24 |
| BE Belgium | 40 | 1 in 293K | 40 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
57 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Gester is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of gestō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of gest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hrx, yesterday
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)
- George Clark Gesterb. 1884USAmerican geologist (1884–1959)
- Eskil Gesterb. 1894SESwedish military personnel (1894-1989)
- Martin Gesterb. 1953FRFrench organist, harpsichordist, pianofortist, conductor, classical music teacher
- Louis Gesterb. 1963FRFrench politician
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 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 57 | #95,634 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 40 | #30,613 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #235,265 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- In which country does Gester have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 57 people named Gester, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gester.
- Where is Gester most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gester is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 293 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gester?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 57 people named Gester, about 1 in 3.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gester?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gesterThe 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, “Gester”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.