Gorla
surname · Latin script
Meaning: toponímico de cidade setentrional; do lat
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡɔɹlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gorla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 59K
- ARArgentina1 in 136K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
4,913 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)toponímico de cidade setentrional; do lat. gula/gurgula, “garganta, despenhadeiro”
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gorla 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 | 4,913 | 1 in 270K | 4.9K | Gorla | 42 |
| AR Argentina | 335 | 1 in 136K | 335 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 273 | 1 in 776K | 273 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 204 | 1 in 1.6M | 296 | Gorla | 113 |
| PL Poland | 119 | 1 in 322K | 60 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 57 | 1 in 59K | 57 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 49 | 1 in 172K | 49 | Gorla | 5 |
4,913 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Gorla is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, DERIVATI: Gorlini. 7 Cognome lombardo, frequente a Milano, formato dai toponimi Gorla, ora inglobato in Milano, Gérla Maggiore e Gorla Minore (VA), e Gorle (BG), e dall’etnico Gorlino.
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)- Carlo Gorlab. 1862ITItalian priest and theologian (1862-1942)
- Giuseppe Gorlab. 1895ITItalian politician (1895–1970)
- Gino Gorlab. 1906ITItalian jurist (1906–1992)
- Massimo Gorlab. 1933ITItalian politician (1933–2004)
- Giorgio Gorlab. 1944ITsailor
- Domenico Gorlab. 1965ITItalian sprinter
- Elisa Gorlab. 1976ITPh.D. University of Notre Dame 2004
- Alessandra Gorlab. 1979ITOlympic softball player
- Paola Laura GorlaITItalian hispanist
- Daniele GorlaITPh.D. Università degli Studi di Firenze 2005
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9.4K | #219 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 4.9K | #1,600 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 335 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 296 | #71,105 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 273 | #28,561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 204 | #90,495 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 120 | #130,443 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 60 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 60 | #44,153 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 59 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 59 | #44,159 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 57 | — |
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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Gorla?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɔɹlə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Gorla mean?
- Recorded meaning: toponímico de cidade setentrional; do lat.
- In which country does Gorla have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Gorla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gorla.
- Where is Gorla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gorla is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 59 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gorla?
- In India, the national register counted 4,913 people named Gorla, about 1 in 270 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/gorlaThe 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, “Gorla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.