Gelson
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gelson is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Gelle or Gell (see Gell ). See also Gilson .
- BRBrazil1 in 8.4K◐
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
- AOAngola1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈25K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 132 ●
- 1 in 8.4K ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
32K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Гельсон in UA Ukraine.
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●
Main GB Location (1881): Durham. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Gelle or Gell (see Gell ). See also Gilson .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #824 | 25,254 | 26K rec. | 1 in 8.4K | 29K | Gelson | 132 |
| AO Angola | #58 | 798 | 783 rec. | — | 1 | Gelson | 32 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 577 | 567 rec. | — | — | Gelson | 14 |
| PH Philippines | — | 463 | 335 rec. | — | — | Gelson | 11 |
| FR France | — | 317 | 266 rec. | — | — | Gelson | 56 |
| US United States | — | 200 | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 200 | Gelson | 102 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 198 | 6 rec. | — | — | Gelson | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #860 | 183 | 138 rec. | — | — | Gelson | 18 |
| PT Portugal | — | 178 | 81 rec. | — | listed | Gelson | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 152 | 292 rec. | — | listed | Gelson | 36 |
| CO Colombia | — | 141 | 62 rec. | — | — | Gelson | 20 |
| HN Honduras | — | 118 | 117 rec. | — | — | Gelson | 4 |
Roughly 25K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 8.4K). 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●
- Portuguese428K93%
- English26K6%
- Spanish2.2K1%
- French3551%
- ptbr2321%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 428,114 | 93% |
| English | 26,171 | 6% |
| Spanish | 2,153 | 1% |
| French | 355 | 1% |
| ptbr | 232 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 19 |
| 1940 | 196 |
| 1950 | 1,020 |
| 1960 | 3,425 |
| 1970 | 9,090 |
| 1980 | 15,980 |
| 1990 | 21,035 |
| 2000 | 24,039 |
| 2010 | 24,901 |
| 2020 | 25,180 |
| 2022 | 25,254 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gelson Cláudiob. 1931BRBrazilian politician (1931-1997)
- Gelson Iezzib. 1939BRBrazilian academic
- Gelson Fogazzi Rochab. 1952BRBrazilian association football player
- Gélson da Silvab. 1967BRfootballer
- Gelson Rodriguesb. 1982BRBrazilian footballer
- Gelson Fernandesb. 1986CHSwiss footballer
- Gelson Junior Saiottib. 1987BRBrazilian association football player
- Gelson Martinsb. 1995CVPortuguese and Cape-Verdean association football player
- Gelson Dalab. 1996AOAngolan association football player
- Gelson Luis AdaboBRresearcher
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 29K | #1,140 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 28K | #362 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 25K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 25K | #912 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 25K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 25K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 24K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 21K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 9.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 6.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 5.7K | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 78 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gelson?
- We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Gelson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gelson have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 25 thousand people bear Gelson in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gelson.
- How common is Gelson compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Gelson is the 824th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Gelson a male or female name?
- Gelson is a male 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.
- What does the name Gelson mean?
- Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Gelle or Gell (see Gell ). See also Gilson .
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About this data
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, “Gelson” — the 824th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.