God
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
God is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. God is also written গড in Bengali.
- INIndia1 in 66K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 117K
- FIFinland1 in 121K
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 God 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
35,446 named Good, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
God in other scripts: Latin and Bengali
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Good in US United States, CH Switzerland, NG Nigeria and Gad in IN India.
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)cf. sl. rork-s ora, timp" si particula rode careva" (DLR). I. Gode, Ion, olt. (Sd VII 61; Vr; 17 B IV 199) ; -a (Mus 35) ; -a, din s. Godeni (13-15 B 131). 2. Godeanu, oronim ; - si Godeni ss. V. si Goid e. 3. Godinlesti, -elul ss., prob. din subst. godingodac (DLR). Go/e, -eoae, -escul, -esti v. Neagu IV 1. Gogeamus v. Hag em 2.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against God, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where the surname God is found
(measured from records)God 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 | 35,446as Good | 1 in 9.4K | 35K | Good | 67 |
| IN India | 20,167 | 1 in 66K | 20K | Gad | 58 |
| CH Switzerland | 1,672as Good | 1 in 5K | 1.7K | Good | 4 |
| PL Poland | 1,267as Gad | 1 in 30K | 648 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Good | 14 |
| DK Denmark | 407as Gad | 1 in 14K | 407 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 314as Good | 1 in 32K | 314 | — | 1 |
35,446 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)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).
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname God?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Good, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Switzerland, Poland and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is God most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, God is densest in India — about 1 in 66 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name God?
- In India, the national register counted 20,167 people named God, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about God?
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/godThe 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, “God” — ranked 929th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.