Güë
surname · Latin script
Güë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,271 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In São Tomé & Príncipe it is the 20th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Uncertain, perhaps from Old Norse gígja. If so, doublet of gigue.
- ARArgentina1 in 251K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 262K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 340Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 251K (inferred from the name graph)
1,271 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gue in US United States, AR Argentina, GT Guatemala 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)Uncertain, perhaps from Old Norse gígja. If so, doublet of gigue.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Güë is found
(measured from records)Güë 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 | — | 1,271 | 1 in 262K | 1.3K | Gue | 69 |
| AR Argentina | — | 181 | 1 in 251K | 181 | Gue | 28 |
| BR Brazil | — | 134 | 1 in 1.6M | 134 | Gue | 39 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 336K | — | Gue | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 24 | 1 in 2.1M | 24 | Gue | 17 |
| ST São Tomé & Príncipe | #20 | — | — | — | Gue | 3 |
1,271 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Güë mean, and where does it come from?
- Uncertain, perhaps from Old Norse gígja. If so, doublet of gigue. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Güë?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Güë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gue. After it come Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Güë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Güë is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 251 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Güë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,271 people named Güë in 2010, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
- How common is Güë compared with other names?
- In São Tomé & Príncipe, Güë is the 20th most common surname of 45 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Güë?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%BC%C3%ABThe 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, “Güë” — ranked 20780th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.