Gona
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɠona/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 178K
- UYUruguay1 in 188K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)
1,023 people
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gona 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 | 1,023 | 1 in 1.3M | 1K | Gona | 60 |
| IT Italy | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 432K | — | Gona | 3 |
| US United States | 133 | 1 in 2.5M | 207 | Gona | 66 |
| AR Argentina | 59 | 1 in 771K | 59 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 680K | — | Gona | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | — | — |
| AL Albania | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 178K | 57 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 727K | — | Gona | 3 |
1,023 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Gona is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, contraction of go (“with, having”) + a (various meanings).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, skirt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, A conscript who has served over 180 days in the (Finnish) Army.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, synonym of łuna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Nyanja, to sleep
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, farm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Gona?
- A machine transcription gives /ɠona/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Gona have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Gona, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gona.
- How common is the name Gona?
- In India, the national register counted 1,023 people named Gona, about 1 in 1.3 million 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/gonaThe 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, “Gona”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.