Gurú
surname · Latin script
Gurú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 270K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 280K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
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 Gurú itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
350,945 named Giri
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Guru in IN India, PK Pakistan, LK Sri Lanka and Giri in US United States, MY Malaysia.
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)» name of many men (P); Ardhanarisvara (९);
Cited for this meaning 3
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gurú 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 | 350,945as Giri | 1 in 3.8K | 351K | Guru | 194 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Guru | 9 |
| AR Argentina | 1,118as Gira | 1 in 41K | 1.1K | — | 6 |
| US United States | 789as Giri | 1 in 422K | 2K | Giri | 203 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Giri | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | 326as Guri | 1 in 26K | 326 | — | 7 |
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Guru | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 147as Giri | 1 in 40K | 147 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 141as Giri | 1 in 40K | 141 | — | 4 |
350,945 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling giri. 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 Gurú have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 351 thousand people named Giri, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gurú?
- In India, the national register counted 350,945 people named Giri, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gurú?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gur%C3%BAThe 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, “Gurú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.