Gilje
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʒɪldʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gilje is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 130Kas 길제(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 291Kas Gilse
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 Gilje 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
728 named Gilse, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 길제
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 길제 in KR South Korea.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gilje 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 728as Gilse | 1 in 291K | 910 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | 길제 | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 2.1K | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 153 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 31 | — | — |
728 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edvin Giljeb. 1889SESwedish politician (1889–1945)
- Thormod Giljeb. 1890NONorwegian missionary
- Kathrine Giljeb. 1891NONorwegian missionary (1891-1967)
- Erling Giljeb. 1894NONorwegian missionary (1894-1959)
- Nils Giljeb. 1947NOProfessor, Cultural StudiesDepartment of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen
- Arne Giljeb. 1956NONorwegian rower
- HC Giljeb. 1969NOartist
- Anette Giljeb. 1969NONorwegian author
- Karianne Bjellås Giljeb. 1969NONorwegian executive Director
- Bjørnar Giljeb. 1975NONorwegian researcher
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Gilje?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɪldʒ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gilje have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 728 people named Gilse, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gilje?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 728 people named Gilse in 2022, about 1 in 291 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gilje?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giljeThe 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, “Gilje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.