Gad
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Hebrew name meaning 'fortune' or 'luck', historically associated with both a tribe of Israel and King David's personal seer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 388K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 14K
- PLPoland1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gad itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,267 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A Hebrew name meaning 'fortune' or 'luck', historically associated with both a tribe of Israel and King David's personal seer.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gad 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.
1,267 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Gad is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The name signifies the arrival of good fortune or blessing within the narrative of Jacob's expanding family.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
A male name of Hebrew origin meaning 'fortune' or 'luck'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Gad represents the prophetic voice that holds leadership accountable to divine law, guiding the king in matters of safety, repentance, and proper worship.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In French, From Hebrew Gad, meaning ‘fortune, good luck’.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, from a medieval nickname Gad meaning ‘sting’, ‘point’, or from the Biblical male personal name Gad.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Mette Sophie Gadb. 1850Danish translator
- Emma Gadb. 1852DKDanish writer, editor (1852–1921)
- Urban Gadb. 1879DKDanish filmmaker (1879-1947)
- Dora Gadb. 1912ILIsraeli architect and interior designer
- Hadar Gadb. 1960ILIsraeli painter
- Jens Gadb. 1966DEGerman musician
- Toby Gadb. 1968DEGerman music producer/songwriter
- Ida Darvishb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1974)
- Josh Gadb. 1981USAmerican actor (born 1981)
- Daniel Gadb. 1990ILIsraeli actor
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 58 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 439 | #22,206 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 60 | #4,480 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 60 | #4,539 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #13,836 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 34 | #4,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #22,206 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #11,042 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1997 | 1 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Gad mean, and where does it come from?
- A Hebrew name meaning 'fortune' or 'luck', historically associated with both a tribe of Israel and King David's personal seer. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Gad?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡæd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Gad have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Gad, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gad most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gad is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gad?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,267 people named Gad in 2026, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gad?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gadThe 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, “Gad”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.