Ģül
surname · Latin script
Ģül is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Classical Persian گُل (gul, “flower”).
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 152Kas Guel
- NONorway1 in 16K
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 Ģül 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
2,192 named Guel, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gül in AT Austria, CH Switzerland, SE Sweden, Guel in US United States, PL Poland and Gul in NL Netherlands.
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)
From Classical Persian گُل (gul, “flower”).
Sources 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ģül 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,192as Guel | 1 in 152K | 2.2K | Guel | 178 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,140 | 1 in 34K | 589 | Guel | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 533 | 1 in 32K | 647 | Gul | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 488 | 1 in 17K | 488 | Gül | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 372 | 1 in 27K | 424 | Gül | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 334 | 1 in 16K | 334 | — | 9 |
| DK Denmark | — | 271 | 1 in 22K | 271 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | #476 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 59 | Gül | 25 |
2,192 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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
- What does the name Ģül mean, and where does it come from?
- From Classical Persian گُل (gul, “flower”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Ģül have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Guel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ģül most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ģül is densest in Norway — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ģül?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,140 people named Ģül in 2026, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Ģül compared with other names?
- In Austria, Ģül is the 476th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Ģül” — the 476th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.