Gigas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: - žr. Gigą
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɡəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gigas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 781K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- GRGreece≈1 in 4.7Mas Γιγας
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 Gigas 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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 781K (inferred from the name graph)
15 people, 2008
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Belgium
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)
- žr. Gigą
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gigas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 15 | 1 in 781K | 15 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| GR Greece | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | — | Gigas | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
15 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
Gigas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, giant
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)
- Johannes Gigasb. 1514DEGerman theologian and writer (1514-1581)
- Emil Gigasb. 1849DKDanish librarian (1849-1931)
- Erwin Gigasb. 1899DEGerman docent and geodesist (1899–1976)
- Caspar GigasSilesian physician (fl. 1660-1662)
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #58,164 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #51,393 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Gigas mean, and where does it come from?
- - žr. Gigą Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- How do you pronounce Gigas?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɡəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gigas have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 15 people named Gigas, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gigas most common?
- Gigas is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 781 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gigas?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 15 people named Gigas in 2008, about 1 in 781 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gigas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gigasThe 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, “Gigas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.