Gaûs

given name · Latin script

Gaûs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. from Middle Low German gos, gus ‘goose’ (or Bavarian and Alemannic gaus), a nickname for a foolish person or metonymic occupational name for a breeder of geese. 2.

rarermore common
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 474K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 4.1M
  • FRFrance≈1 in 63M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈220 people, est.

Sources
69 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 474K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gaüs in CD Congo - Kinshasa, BE Belgium and Gaus in FR France.

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)

1. from Middle Low German gos, gus ‘goose’ (or Bavarian and Alemannic gaus), a nickname for a foolish person or metonymic occupational name for a breeder of geese. 2. from a short form of an old personal name formed with Old High German gawi ‘fertile region’, ‘district’.

Sources 2

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gaûs 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.

Where Gaûs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈220 est.≈1 in 474K—Gaüs2
BE Belgium≈3 est.≈1 in 4.1M5Gaüs2
FR France≈1 est.≈1 in 63M5Gaus49
US United States——1.3K—69
IN India——163—3

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 2000; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gaûs is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Turkmenistan, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Turkmen

    Also written Gaus, Gauş

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gaûs under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gaûs mean, and where does it come from?
1. from Middle Low German gos, gus ‘goose’ (or Bavarian and Alemannic gaus), a nickname for a foolish person or metonymic occupational name for a breeder of geese. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
Is Gaûs a male or female name?
Gaûs is a male 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.
In which country does Gaûs have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 215 people named Gaûs in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaüs.
How common is the name Gaûs?
Mondonomo estimates about 220 people in Congo - Kinshasa have Gaûs as their first given name, about 1 in 474 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Gaûs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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