Gauḍa

surname · Latin script

Gauḍa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

  • DEGermany≈1 in 500Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • INIndia1 in 37Kas Gouda
  • NLNetherlands1 in 63Kas Gouda

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 Gauḍa 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.

India (measured from records)

35,569 named Gouda

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
101 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 504K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
GauḍaLatin(measured from records)
גאודהHebrew(measured from records)
ಗೌಡKannada(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gauda in IN India, US United States, DE Germany and 3 more and Gadi in PK Pakistan.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Gauḍa 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.

Where Gauḍa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#76135,569as Gouda1 in 37K36KGauda87
PK Pakistan—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 107K—Gadi14
NG Nigeria—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 206K—Gauda8
PH Philippines—≈810 est.≈1 in 135K—Gauda6
US United States—571as Gaur1 in 583K1.1KGauda101
NL Netherlands—274as Gouda1 in 63K274Gauda2
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈270 est.≈1 in 101K180——
DE Germany—≈160 est.≈1 in 504K—Gauda37

35,569 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling gouda. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Gauḍa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Ǧauda, Gauḏa, Gauḍā, Gauda

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gauda

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gauḍa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Gauḍa have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Gouda, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Gauḍa?
In India, the national register counted 35,569 people named Gouda, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
How common is Gauḍa compared with other names?
In India, Gauḍa is the 761st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gauḍa” — the 761st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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