Gessi

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Gessi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name30 records spelled Gessi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Géssi

• a separate name12 records spelled Gessi4 spellings in the group

  Also written Гесси

36 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●

Gessi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, first-person singular perfect active indicative of gerō

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In sga, verbal of necessity of guidid

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 10 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●

• Sonhy Sefilb. 1994FRnot in their usual nameFrench association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 56 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gessi?

We estimate roughly 7.2 thousand people bear Gessi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.

In which country does Gessi have the most bearers?

We estimate about 7.2 thousand people bear Gessi in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gessi.

Where is Gessi most common?

Gessi is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.

Is Gessi a male or female name?

Gessi 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.

What does the name Gessi mean?

Recorded meaning: oriundo de Gessopalena ou de localidades setentrionais chamadas Gessi/Gesso, ligadas a minas de gesso