Gijs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gijs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7Kas Hayes(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 738Kas Гейс
- BEBelgium1 in 39K
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 Gijs 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
194,246 named Hayes, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hayes in US United States, BE Belgium and Гейс in RU Russia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gijs 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 | 194,246as Hayes | 1 in 1.7K | 194K | Hayes | 54 |
| ES Spain | 385as Hayes | 1 in 130K | 385 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 383as Hayes | 1 in 119K | 383 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 301 | 1 in 39K | 306 | Hayes | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 738K | — | Гейс | 75 |
| NO Norway | 152as Hayes | 1 in 36K | 152 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 34as Hayes | 1 in 3.3K | 34 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 21as Hayes | 1 in 36K | 21 | — | — |
194,246 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gijs is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Grieķu mitoloģijā - debesu dieva Urāna un zemes dievietes Gajas dēls, viens no trim hekatonheiriem, briesmonis ar 50 galvām un 100 rokām, kas Tartarā apsargā gāztos titānus
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gijs van Hallb. 1904NLDutch politician (1904–1977)
- Gijs de Vriesb. 1956USDutch politician
- Gijs Scholten van Aschatb. 1959NLactor (born 1959)
- Gijs Tuinmanb. 1979NLDutch military officer and politician (born 1979)
- Gijs Naberb. 1980NLDutch actor
- Gijs Van Hoeckeb. 1991BEBelgian racing cyclist
- Gijs Blomb. 1997NLDutch actor
- Gijs Smalb. 1997NLDutch association football player
- Gijs Determeijerfilm producer
- Gijs Onvleefilm editor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #17,999 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Gijs a male or female name?
- Gijs 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.
- What are other forms of the name Gijs?
- In the etymology graph, Jip is a form of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Gijsbert.
- In which country does Gijs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 194 thousand people named Hayes, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gijs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gijs is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gijs?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 301 people named Gijs in 2008, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gijsThe 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, “Gijs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.