Gadol
surname · Latin script
Meaning: An eminent, highly respected rabbi, esp (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Gadol is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Gadol is also written גדול in Hebrew.
- INIndia1 in 189M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 108Kas גדול
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gadol 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 189M (inferred from the name graph)
80 named גדול, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gadol in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled גדול in IL Israel, IR Iran, BG Bulgaria.
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)An eminent, highly respected rabbi, esp. of the past.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gadol is found
(measured from records)Gadol 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 80as גדול | 1 in 108K | 80 | גדול | 19 |
| IN India | 7 | 1 in 189M | 7 | — | 1 |
| IR Iran | — | — | — | גדול | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Gadol | 10 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | — | — | גדול | 3 |
80 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gadol come from?
- An eminent, highly respected rabbi, esp. of the past. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Gadol mean?
- Recorded meaning: An eminent, highly respected rabbi, esp.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gadol?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 80 people named גדול, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gadol most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gadol is densest in India — about 1 in 189 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gadol?
- In India, the national register counted 7 people named Gadol, about 1 in 189 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gadolThe 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, “Gadol” — ranked 12902nd in Israel (CBS Israel, 2017). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.