Gorn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Pronunciation spelling of gone
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɔɹn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gorn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 207K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 6.4Kas Horn
- RURussia≈1 in 81Kas Горн
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 Gorn 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 207K (inferred from the name graph)
52,138 named Horn, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Горн in RU Russia and Horn in CH Switzerland.
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)
Pronunciation spelling of gone.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gorn 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 | 52,138as Horn | 1 in 6.4K | 52K | Gorn | 137 |
| BR Brazil | 4,446as Horn | 1 in 48K | 4.4K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 2,114as Horn | 1 in 2.6K | 2.1K | — | 2 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Горн | 121 |
| NL Netherlands | 887as Horn | 1 in 19K | 887 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 713as Horn | 1 in 8.2K | 713 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 624as Horn | 1 in 13K | 624 | Horn | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Gorn | 45 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 264as Horne | 1 in 384 | 264 | — | — |
| IN India | 30 | 1 in 44M | 30 | — | 5 |
52,138 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling horn. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Gorn is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, soft mutation of corn (“horn”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, horn, bugle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Walter Gornb. 1898DEGerman general (1898-1968)
- Elliott J. Gornb. 1951biographer
- Lev Gornb. 1971USAmerican actor born in the Soviet Union
- Juliane Gornb. 1998DEGerman association football player
- Steve Gornb. 2000USAmerican musician
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 195 | #99,304 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 168 | #106,096 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 30 | #61,673 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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
- What does the name Gorn mean, and where does it come from?
- Pronunciation spelling of gone. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gorn?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɔɹn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gorn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Horn, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gorn?
- In India, the national register counted 30 people named Gorn, about 1 in 44 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gorn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gornThe 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, “Gorn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.