Gise
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xjse/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gise is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England:. nickname from Middle English giste, which could denote a supporting timber or joist, or (in Cornwall) a beam of any kind.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 184K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 69K
- COColombia≈1 in 100K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
≈490 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England:. nickname from Middle English giste, which could denote a supporting timber or joist, or (in Cornwall) a beam of any kind. The surname possibly denotes a strong, well-built individual.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gise 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Gise | 12 |
| CL Chile | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Gise | 13 |
| AR Argentina | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Gise | 38 |
| ES Spain | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 768K | — | Gise | 11 |
| PE Peru | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Gise | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 36 | 1 in 5.9M | 45 | Gise | 16 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Gise | 5 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)
Gise 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 ang, alternative form of ġēse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, To feed or pasture.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, guise; manner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Tiedemann Gieseb. 1480PLnot in their usual nameRoman Catholic bishop
- Georg Gieseb. 1497PLnot in their usual nameMerchant
- Ernst Gieseb. 1832DEnot in their usual nameGerman architect and professor (1832-1903)
- Karl Gieseb. 1898CZnot in their usual nameGerman LGBT-activist, archivist and curator (1898-1938)
- Harry Gieseb. 1903DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor (1903-1991)
- Horst Gieseb. 1926DEnot in their usual nameEast German actor (1926-2008)
- Bernd Gieseb. 1940DEnot in their usual nameGerman chemist
- Kathrin Gieseb. 1961DEnot in their usual nameGerman canoeist
- Godehard Gieseb. 1972DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor
- Maria GieseUSnot in their usual namefilmmaker
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 35 | #134,170 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gise mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England:. nickname from Middle English giste, which could denote a supporting timber or joist, or (in Cornwall) a beam of any kind. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Gise?
- A machine transcription gives /xjse/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Gise a male or female name?
- Gise is a female 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 Gise have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 493 people named Gise in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gise.
- How common is the name Gise?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 36 people named Gise in 2022, about 1 in 5.9 million 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/giseThe 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, “Gise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.