Giese
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of the personal name Giselbert (see Giesbrecht), or any other Germanic name with gisil as the first element
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Giese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 36K(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 41Kfew records
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 48Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
6,553 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 a short form of the personal name Giselbert (see Giesbrecht), or any other Germanic name with gisil as the first element.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Giese 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 | — | 6,553 | 1 in 51K | 6.6K | Giese | 296 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Giese | 10 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Giese | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Giese | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 711 | 1 in 298K | 711 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 164 | 1 in 36K | 164 | Giese | 51 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 162 | 1 in 52K | 162 | Giese | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Giese | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #423 | — | — | — | Giese | 1 |
6,553 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Giese 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 German, Patronym/Metronym zu Rufnamen-Kurzform Giso/Gisa; 5622 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, patronymisch zu Rufname Giso/Gisa; 5622 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, from a short form with -s
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Tiedemann Gieseb. 1480PLRoman Catholic bishop
- Georg Gieseb. 1497PLMerchant
- Ernst Gieseb. 1832DEGerman architect and professor (1832-1903)
- Karl Gieseb. 1898CZGerman LGBT-activist, archivist and curator (1898-1938)
- Harry Gieseb. 1903DEGerman actor (1903-1991)
- Horst Gieseb. 1926DEEast German actor (1926-2008)
- Bernd Gieseb. 1940DEGerman chemist
- Kathrin Gieseb. 1961DEGerman canoeist
- Godehard Gieseb. 1972DEGerman actor
- Maria GieseUSfilmmaker
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)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.6K | #4,910 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.6K | #5,319 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.2K | #5,405 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 711 | #12,440 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 164 | #3,209 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 162 | #7,462 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Giese mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of the personal name Giselbert (see Giesbrecht), or any other Germanic name with gisil as the first element. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Giese have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Giese, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giese.
- Where is Giese most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Giese is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Giese?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,553 people named Giese in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Giese compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Giese is the 423rd most common surname of 30,187 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/gieseThe 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, “Giese” — the 423rd most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.