Gela

given name · Georgian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gela is a given name, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Georgian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: patronymisch zu Kurzform Gela; möglich zu Rufnamen mit ahd.

rarermore common
  • GEGeorgia1 in 235◐
  • PLPoland1 in 53K
  • RURussia1 in 77K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈24K ●

across 14 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
104 ●

93K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 235 ◐

Georgia

Spellings & scripts●

GelaLatin · Georgian●186K records
ᲒელაGeorgian · Georgian●51K records
ГелаCyrillic · Russian●14K records

Locally spelled Гела in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, ZW Zimbabwe and 6 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

patronymisch zu Kurzform Gela; möglich zu Rufnamen mit ahd. l-Suffix, auch zu Gertrud oder zu lat. Angela

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GE Georgia#2216,99484K rec.1 in 23517KGela64
RU Russia—13,4606.2K rec.—#2,933Гела104
HR Croatia—5,933—1 in 7135.9K——
UA Ukraine—1,3282.4K rec.——Гела17
PL Poland—728△15 rec.1 in 53K728Gela14
ZW Zimbabwe#1964430 rec.——Гела1
US United States—243293 rec.1 in 1.4M243Gela54
TR Türkiye—23580 rec.——Гела9
SI Slovenia—232—1 in 9.1K232——
IN India—132131 rec.—14KGela5
ES Spain—84△29 rec.1 in 595K84Gela11
BR Brazil—73—1 in 2.9M73——

Roughly 17K people in Georgia bear this name (about 1 in 235). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Georgian186K93%
  • Polish2.8K1%
  • Spanish2.8K1%
  • English1.8K1%
  • Hindi1.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Georgian186,01493%
Polish2,8471%
Spanish2,8421%
English1,7801%
Hindi1,2841%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gela is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4.2K records spelled Gela7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gelá, Géla, Gëlä, Gëĺã

  • English given name3.9K records spelled Gela5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Gélà

  • German given name1.3K records spelled Gela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Poland

    Also written Gelá

  • a separate given name1.3K records spelled Gela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia

    Also written Géla

  • French given name559 records spelled Gela5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Israel

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Gelã, Géla, Gélà

  • Amharic given name493 records spelled Gela5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, India, Philippines

    Also written Gala, ገላ, ጌላ, Galaa

  • Slovak given name263 records spelled Gela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Géla, Geľa

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Gela 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 Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of gelō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, third-person singular past historic of geler

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In suk, spear-head

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In grt, to avoid

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In euq-pro, room

    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●

19201940196019802000Gela Charkviani, b. 1939Gela Kandelaki, b. 1940Gela Dumbadze, b. 1965Gela Ketashvili, b. 1965Gela Bezhuashvili, b. 1967Géla Babluani, b. 1979Gela Saghirashvili, b. 1980Gela Bolkvadze, b. 1995Gela Aprasidze, b. 1998Gela Zaalishvili, b. 1999

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●

Attested in 36 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Gela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026728#570
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—676#575
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020158#35,546
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—81#18,642
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—76#9,122
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202068#35,546
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—51#103,379
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—46#37,760
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—36#54,412
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—33#39,194
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—33#12,794
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202627—

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 66 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gela?
We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Gela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Gela have the most bearers?
We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Gela in Georgia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gela.
Where is Gela most common?
Gela is densest in Georgia, where the national register counts about 1 in 235 people carrying it.
How common is Gela compared with other names?
In Georgia, Gela is the 22nd most common given name of 34,237 given names recorded there.
Is Gela a male or female name?
Gela is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Gela mean?
Recorded meaning: patronymisch zu Kurzform Gela; möglich zu Rufnamen mit ahd.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Gela” — the 22nd most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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