Gigolo

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gigolo is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment; a prostitute.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria
  • PHPhilippines
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment; a prostitute.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gigolo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Gigolo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States——Gigolo7
PH Philippines——Gigolo2
NG Nigeria——Gigolo3
EE Estonia—listed——

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.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gigolo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gigolò

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gigoló, Gigolô, Gigolò

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gigolo 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 Swedish, a gigolo (male prostitue)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, GIGOLÓ s. m. (Franțuzism) Bărbat cu moravuri dubioase. [Pr.: jigolo].

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

  • In Latvian, Īrējams dejotājs, bārkungs; žigolo

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gigolo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gigolo mean, and where does it come from?
A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment; a prostitute. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Gigolo a male or female name?
Gigolo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Gigolo have the most bearers?
Gigolo is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled gigolo.

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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, “Gigolo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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