Gemechu
given name · Amharic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gemechu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia. It appears chiefly in Amharic and , written in the Latin script.
- ETEthiopia1 in 1.3K◐
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- NONorway1 in 3M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 79 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 2 countries
recorded for this name
3.0K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #106 | 2,859 | 2.2K rec. | — | listed | Gemechu | 21 |
| US United States | — | 289 | 623 rec. | — | 313 | Gemechu | 79 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 13 | 20 rec. | — | — | Gemechu | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11 | 29 rec. | — | — | Gemechu | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 10 | 17 rec. | — | — | Gemechu | 10 |
| NO Norway | — | 8 | 9 rec. | — | 14 | Gemechu | 6 |
| KE Kenya | — | 8 | 9 rec. | — | — | Gemechu | 6 |
| CN China | — | 7 | 0 rec. | — | — | Gemechu | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 5 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | — | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 27 rec. | — | 20 | — | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 6 | — | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Amharic2K52%
- 1.2K31%
- English36210%
- Arabic541%
- Swahili441%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Amharic | 1,958 | 52% |
| 1,183 | 31% | |
| English | 362 | 10% |
| Arabic | 54 | 1% |
| Swahili | 44 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Shitaye Gemechub. 1980ETEthiopian marathon runner
- Tsehay Gemechub. 1998ETEthiopian athletics competitor
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 313 | #67,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 152 | #115,034 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #25,614 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #29,459 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #50,568 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #197,145 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #68,469 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #331,400 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #9,701 |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 15 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gemechu?
- We estimate roughly 3 people bear Gemechu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gemechu have the most bearers?
- Gemechu is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled gemechu.
- How common is Gemechu compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Gemechu is the 106th most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
- Is Gemechu a male or female name?
- Gemechu 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gemechuThe 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. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Gemechu” — the 106th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.