Gittel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gittel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 5.5Kas גיטל(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 5.9Kas גיטל
- LBLebanon≈1 in 10Kas גיטל
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 Gittel 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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 340K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 named גיטל, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled גיטל in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 2 more and Gitel in LV Latvia.
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.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gittel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #351 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | גיטל | 2 |
| IL Israel | #434 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | listed | גיטל | 17 |
| US United States | — | 978 | 1 in 340K | 978 | גיטל | 14 |
| LB Lebanon | #428 | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | גיטל | 1 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | גיטל | 3 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Gitel | 3 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
- Gittel Altmannb. 1869ATHolocaust victim (born 1869)
- Marie Gittel Blausteinb. 1871CZHolocaust victim (born 1871)
- Taube Gittel Fuchsb. 1872PLHolocaust victim (born 1872)
- Ida Gittel Bodekb. 1873ATHolocaust victim (born 1873)
- Gittel Aszkenasyb. 1879UAHolocaust victim (born 1879)
- Gittel Bauerb. 1880UAHolocaust victim (born 1880)
- Frieda Gittel Fischerb. 1890ATHolocaust victim (born 1890)
- Gittel Kofman-Veitb. 1894Holocaust victim (born 1894)
- Sure Gittel Engelováb. 1909CZHolocaust victim (born 1909)
- Judith Krantzb. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1928–2019)
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Gittel a male or female name?
- Gittel 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 Gittel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named גיטל in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gittel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gittel is densest in the United States — about 1 in 340 thousand people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gittel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 978 people named Gittel in 2020, about 1 in 340 thousand residents.
- How common is Gittel compared with other names?
- In Romania, Gittel is the 351st most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gittelThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gittel” — the 351st most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.