Ğouda
surname · Latin script
Ğouda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 4.1Kas Goda(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 10Kas Goud
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 22Kas Gode
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 Ğouda 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 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- 1 in 902K (inferred from the name graph)
132,382 named Goud
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gouda in EG Egypt, AE United Arab Emirates, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 more and Goud in IN India, ID Indonesia.
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)La ville de Gouda, aux Pays-Bas, produit un fromage renommé à pâte pressée.
Cited for this meaning 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ğouda 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 | #311 | 132,382as Goud | 1 in 10K | 132K | Goud | 197 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Gouda | 109 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 982 | — | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Goud | 6 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Gouda | 45 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Gouda | 45 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Gouda | 17 |
| BE Belgium | — | 13 | 1 in 902K | 13 | Gouda | 6 |
132,382 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ğouda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 132 thousand people named Goud, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ğouda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ğouda is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 902 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ğouda?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 13 people named Ğouda in 2008, about 1 in 902 thousand residents.
- How common is Ğouda compared with other names?
- In India, Ğouda is the 311th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%9FoudaThe 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, “Ğouda” — the 311th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.