Pelagie

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Du grec pelagios, « pleine mer »

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/plaʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pelagie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 100th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 3.2K
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)

≈12,000 people, est.

Sources
132 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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 ».

Sources 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.

Where Pelagie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon#161≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Pelagie11
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈5,500 est.≈1 in 5K—Pelagie8
CD Congo - Kinshasa#895≈4,700 est.≈1 in 22KlistedPelagie8
CG Congo - Brazzaville#100≈1,700 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Pélagie4
TG Togo#125≈870 est.≈1 in 9.8K1Pelagie6
GA Gabon#599≈150 est.≈1 in 14K18Pelagie11
NL Netherlands—181 in 960K18—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: Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pelagie is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Pélagie

  • Swahili given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, Rwanda, United States, Cameroon

    Languages: Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Southern Sotho

    Also written Pélagie, Pèlagie

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pélagie

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pélagie

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

    Also written Pélagie

  • Portuguese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, Brazil

    Also written Pélagie, Pèlagie

33 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

InformalBonjour Pelagie,Hi Pelagie, (English)

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)

Attested in 16 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Pelagie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GA GabonMinistere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative)202518#78
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—18#15,724
TG TogoJournal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024)20241#23
CD Congo - KinshasaWGND 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).
How do you pronounce Pelagie?
A machine transcription gives /plaʒi/ (IPA) for French.
Is Pelagie a male or female name?
Pelagie 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.
In which country does Pelagie have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Pelagie in Cameroon, 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 Cameroon, Pelagie is the 161st most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.

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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 161st most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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