Giel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius, from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒiɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 50K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 122K
- USUnited States1 in 774K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
772 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius, from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’. Compare English Giles. 2. in some instances, an altered spelling of Geil.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 772 | 1 in 50K | 390 | Giel | 45 |
| US United States | 430 | 1 in 774K | 466 | Giel | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 142 | 1 in 122K | 2K | — | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 5 | 1 in 2.1M | 5 | — | — |
772 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Giel 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 Luxembourgish, yellow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ycl, sweat
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(measured from records)
- Henri Gielb. 1892NLDutch private banker (1892–1981)
- Rob Gielb. 1930NLDutch psychiatrist (1930-2009)
- Paul Gielb. 1932USAmerican football and baseball player, college athletics administrator (1932-2002)
- Michael Gielb. 1979ATbadminton player
- Antonio Gielb. 1981NLDutch footballer
- Paweł Gielb. 1989PLPolish footballer
- Rosanna Gielb. 1992CUCuban volleyball player
- Małgorzata Giel-PietraszukPLPolish biochemist
- Simone GielNLactress from the Netherlands
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2K | #676 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.8K | #1,442 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 46 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 46 | #70,533 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 46 | #30,776 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2016 | 33 | #447 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 14 | #18,281 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #25,093 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #21,731 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Where does the name Giel come from?
- 1. from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius, from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’. Compare English Giles. 2. in some instances, an altered spelling of Geil. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Giel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒiɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Giel mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius, from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’.
- In which country does Giel have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 772 people named Giel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giel.
- Where is Giel most common?
- Giel is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Giel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 772 people named Giel in 2026, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Giel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gielThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Giel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.