Pelagie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Du grec pelagios, « pleine mer »
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Ministere de l'Interieur, 2025
Pelagie is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 100th most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 7Kfew records
- TGTogo≈1 in 8Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pélagie in CG Congo - Brazzaville.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Du grec pelagios, « pleine mer ».
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pelagie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Pelagie | 8 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #895 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | listed | Pelagie | 8 |
| CM Cameroon | #161 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Pelagie | 11 |
| BJ Benin | #294 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Pelagie | 11 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #100 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Pélagie | 4 |
| GA Gabon | #599 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 18 | Pelagie | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 18 | 1 in 960K | 18 | — | 2 |
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: the wgnd-cd-names register; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pelagie Vuylstekeb. 1840BEnun and mother superior (1840-1909)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 18 | #78 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 18 | #15,724 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pelagie mean, and where does it come from?
- Du grec pelagios, « pleine mer ». Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Pelagie a male or female name?
- Pelagie is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2006).
- In which country does Pelagie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Pelagie in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelagie.
- How common is the name Pelagie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 18 people named Pelagie, about 1 in 960 thousand residents.
- How common is Pelagie compared with other names?
- In Congo - Brazzaville, Pelagie is the 100th most common given name of 363 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pelagieThe 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, “Pelagie” — the 100th most common given name in Congo - Brazzaville. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.