Gurulé
surname · Latin script
Gurulé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Grolet; taken from the surname of Jacques Grolet, a French explorer who settled New Mexico.
- USUnited States1 in 68K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 170K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 700K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
4,915 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cuba, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gurule in US United States, AR Argentina, MY Malaysia and 3 more.
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)Borrowed from French Grolet; taken from the surname of Jacques Grolet, a French explorer who settled New Mexico.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gurulé 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 | — | 4,915 | 1 in 68K | 4.9K | Gurule | 265 |
| CU Cuba | #483 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Gurule | 2 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Gurule | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Gurule | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Gurule | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Gurule | 2 |
4,915 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. 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)Gurulé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a surname from French, of New Mexican usage
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)- Jimmy Guruléb. 1951USAmerican academic
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gurulé mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Grolet; taken from the surname of Jacques Grolet, a French explorer who settled New Mexico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Gurulé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Gurulé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gurule.
- How common is the name Gurulé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,915 people named Gurulé in 2010, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Gurulé compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Gurulé is the 483rd most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurul%C3%A9The 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, “Gurulé” — the 483rd most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.