Geva
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Geva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Colina.
- ILIsrael1 in 3.2Kas גבע(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 326K
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
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 Geva 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 326K (inferred from the name graph)
2,687 named גבע, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled גבע in IL Israel, RO Romania, MA Morocco and 3 more.
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)
Colina
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Where in the world(measured from records)
Geva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #305 | 2,687as גבע | 1 in 3.2K | 2.7K | גבע | 74 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | גבע | 3 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | גבע | 4 |
| US United States | — | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 134 | Geva | 91 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | גבע | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | גבע | 1 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | גבע | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 36 | 1 in 326K | 36 | — | 2 |
2,687 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Geva 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 Faroese, to give
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In odt, gift
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)
- Tamara Gevab. 1907USSoviet-American actress and dancer (1906–1997)
- Yosef Gevab. 1924ILIsraeli military person
- Eli Gevab. 1950ILIsraeli brigade commander
- Amir Gevab. 1950ILIsraeli film producer
- Danny Gevab. 1974ILIsraeli actor
- Miki Gevab. 1979ILIsraeli comedian and actor (born 1979)
- Joella Geva de Verab. 1997PHFilipino badminton player
- Ronny Gevab. 2000ILresearcher
- Amir GevaILresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-3159-3673
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 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 134 | #131,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 36 | #32,730 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Geva mean, and where does it come from?
- Colina Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- In which country does Geva have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named גבע, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Geva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Geva is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 326 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Geva?
- In the United States, the national register counted 109 people named Geva in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
- How common is Geva compared with other names?
- In Israel, Geva is the 305th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gevaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Geva” — the 305th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.