Gád
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Gád is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Euphemistic alteration of God.
- DKDenmark1 in 14K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 30K
- GYGuyana1 in 75K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gád 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,267 people, 2026
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 Gad in US United States, 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)Euphemistic alteration of God.
Cited for this meaning 10
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gád is found
(measured from records)Gád 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.
1,267 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Gád 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 Polish, alternative form of gad (“snake”)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gád mean, and where does it come from?
- Euphemistic alteration of God. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 8 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gád?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Gád, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, United States, Denmark and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gád most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gád is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gád?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,267 people named Gád in 2026, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A1dThe 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, “Gád”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.