The Gelin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,159 people carried this name — #22,246 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 256,400 people counted. That is up 35% from 859 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,718 people named Gelin.
31 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 74 départements, most often Saône-et-Loire.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
90 people named Gelin live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Jura.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
399 people named Gelin is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Gelin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Henri Gelin 1849–1923 · regionalist
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Edvard Gelin 1853–1927 · politician
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Albert Gelin 1902–1960 · Catholic priest
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Curt Gelin 1945– · journalist
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Evelyne Gelin 1967– · politician
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Martin Gelin 1978– · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gelin.
- Gelabert 313 · U.S. census
- Gelb 1,485 · U.S. census
- Geldhof 150 · U.S. census
- Geldreich 104 · U.S. census
- Gele 127 · U.S. census
- Gelet 123 · U.S. census
- Gelineau 617 · U.S. census
- Gelis 103 · U.S. census
- Gella 154 · U.S. census
- Gelle 383 · U.S. census
- Geller 6,810 · U.S. census
- Gellis 381 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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