Gigli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma pl. de Giglio
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/xjɡli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gigli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 45K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 103K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 153K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
1,010 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma pl. de Giglio
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gigli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,010 | 1 in 45K | 1K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 196 | 1 in 1.1M | 196 | — | — |
| US United States | 179 | 1 in 1.9M | 203 | Gigli | 63 |
| CH Switzerland | 55 | 1 in 153K | 55 | Gigli | 12 |
| ES Spain | 34 | 1 in 1.5M | 34 | Gigli | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 16 | 1 in 733K | 16 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | — | — |
1,010 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Gigli 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 Croatian, talijanski pjevač, najslavniji tenor svoga doba
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Giovanni de' Giglib. 1434BEBishop of Worcester
- Girolamo Giglib. 1660ITItalian dramaturge (1660-1722)
- Leonardo Giglib. 1863ITItalian surgeon and obstetrician
- Beniamino Giglib. 1890ITItalian opera singer (1890–1957)
- Rina Giglib. 1916ITItalian singer (1916–2000)
- Ormond Giglib. 1925USAmerican photographer and photojournalist
- Rodolfo Giglib. 1935ITItalian politician (1935-2023)
- Romeo Giglib. 1949ITItalian fashion designer (born 1949)
- Gian Luigi Giglib. 1952ITItalian politician
- Elena Giglib. 1985ITItalian water polo player
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 203 | #85,643 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 196 | #37,400 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 188 | #102,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 179 | #100,791 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 55 | #17,311 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 34 | #58,719 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 34 | #57,670 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 33 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16 | #54,864 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #8,033 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Gigli mean, and where does it come from?
- forma pl. de Giglio Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Gigli?
- A machine transcription gives /xjɡli/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gigli have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Gigli, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gigli most common?
- Gigli is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 45 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gigli?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,010 people named Gigli, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gigliThe 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, “Gigli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.