Gili
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma pl. de Gilio
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/xili/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gili is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 33K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 56K
- ITItaly≈1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
1,524 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma pl. de Gilio
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gili 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,524 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Gili | 94 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 1 | Gili | 18 |
| AR Argentina | 808 | 1 in 56K | 808 | Gili | 51 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Gili | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Gili | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 30 | 1 in 113K | 30 | Gili | 10 |
1,524 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); 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); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Gili is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Gilli
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In men, still, inactive ; way,manner. Ngi yénge gili mia
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In men, def. st. gilisia, white ant, bugabug, bug
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Filipino, rolling with the hand or fingers (such as rolling dough, grinding pills, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wlo, turn, twist, grind, jack up (a house by twisting ropes)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Samuel Gili Gayab. 1892ESSpanish philologist (1892-1976)
- Giacomo Mario Gilib. 1906ITItalian lyricist
- Marcel Gilib. 1914FRFrench sculptor (1914-1993)
- Jean Antoine Gilib. 1938FRFrench film critic and film historian (1938-)
- Josep Maria Reguantb. 1941ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Gabriela Gilib. 1945ARArgentinian actress (1945-1991)
- Gérard Gilib. 1952FRFrench footballer
- Anna Gilib. 1960ITItalian designer and artist (born 1960)
- Gema Gilib. 1994ESValencian Footballer
- Margalida Giliresearcher
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 39 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.5K | #3,066 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #3,065 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 808 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 30 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Gili mean, and where does it come from?
- forma pl. de Gilio Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Gili?
- A machine transcription gives /xili/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gili have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Gili, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gili.
- Where is Gili most common?
- Gili is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gili?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,524 people named Gili, about 1 in 33 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/giliThe 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, “Gili”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.