Giĺ
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Giĺ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From northern Proto-Slavic *gylь. Cognate with Czech hýl and Belarusian гіль (hilʹ).
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 320(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 360
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 489
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 Giĺ 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #676 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 320 (inferred from the name graph)
139,109 people
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gil in VE Venezuela, ES Spain, CO Colombia and 2 more and 길 in KR South Korea.
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)
From northern Proto-Slavic *gylь. Cognate with Czech hýl and Belarusian гіль (hilʹ).
Sources 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giĺ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #25 | 139,109 | 1 in 360 | 139K | Gil | 250 |
| VE Venezuela | #55 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 320 | — | Gil | 107 |
| CO Colombia | #85 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 609 | 58 | Gil | 171 |
| US United States | — | 74,948as Gill | 1 in 4.4K | 76K | Gil | 386 |
| KR South Korea | #61 | 38,173as 길 | 1 in 1.4K | 38K | 길 | 107 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #54 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 489 | — | Gil | 84 |
| GY Guyana | — | 565as Gill | 1 in 1.3K | 565 | — | — |
139,109 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Giĺ mean, and where does it come from?
- From northern Proto-Slavic *gylь. Cognate with Czech hýl and Belarusian гіль (hilʹ). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 8 other sources.
- In which country does Giĺ have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 139 thousand people named Giĺ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gil.
- How common is the name Giĺ?
- In Spain, the national register counted 139,109 people named Giĺ, about 1 in 360 residents.
- How common is Giĺ compared with other names?
- In Spain, Giĺ is the 25th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gi%C4%BAThe 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, “Giĺ” — the 25th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.