Gath
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name from Middle Low German gate ‘street’, ‘alley’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gath is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 88K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 98K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 240Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gath 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
Locally spelled Gaeth in IN India.
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)topographic name from Middle Low German gate ‘street’, ‘alley’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gath 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 848K | 25 | Gaeth | 7 |
| DE Germany | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Gath | 65 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Gath | 2 |
| US United States | 556 | 1 in 598K | 581 | Gath | 172 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Gath | 66 |
| DK Denmark | 67 | 1 in 88K | 67 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Gath | 12 |
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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)Gath 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.
In English, Gath-hepher [Gittah-hepher]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, city, Palestine
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
variant of Gade (see Gaede).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
reduced form of McGath.
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)- Goswin Peter Gathb. 1898DEGerman writer (1898-1959)
- Conor Gathb. 1980IEIrish hurler
- Marsia Gathb. 1992DEGerman association football player
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- 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 Gath mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from Middle Low German gate ‘street’, ‘alley’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gath have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Gath in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaeth.
- Where is Gath most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gath is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 88 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gath?
- In the United States, the national register counted 556 people named Gath in 2010, about 1 in 598 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gathThe 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, “Gath”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.