Gűlden
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gűlden is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 46 people, counted by the Meertens NVB. Recorded meaning: see Golden . 2 German: (i) nickname, status name from the name of the coin (English guilder), from Middle High German guldīn ‘golden’; it was probably applied as a nickname, or a status name with refe.
- DKDenmark1 in 267K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 352K
- NLNetherlands1 in 376K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 267K (inferred from the name graph)
46 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gülden in TR Türkiye.
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)see Golden . 2 German: (i) nickname, status name from the name of the coin (English guilder), from Middle High German guldīn ‘golden’; it was probably applied as a nickname, or a status name with reference to a medieval tax obligation. (ii) nickname, locative name for someone who lived near a cesspool, a euphemistic application of Middle Low German gülden, gulden, Middle High German guldin ‘gold, golden’.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gűlden 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 46 | 1 in 376K | 150 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 29 | 1 in 352K | 29 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Gülden | 5 |
46 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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 Gűlden mean, and where does it come from?
- see Golden . 2 German: (i) nickname, status name from the name of the coin (English guilder), from Middle High German guldīn ‘golden’; it was probably applied as a nickname, or a status name with refe… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- Is Gűlden a male or female name?
- Gűlden is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Gűlden?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 46 people named Gűlden, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden, Denmark and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gűlden most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gűlden is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 267 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gűlden?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 46 people named Gűlden, about 1 in 376 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C5%B1ldenThe 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, “Gűlden” — ranked 8884th in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.