Gilde
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Gilde; also related to Gold in some names
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gilde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 13K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 219K
- SESweden1 in 537K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
428 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Gilde; also related to Gold in some names
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gilde 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 428 | 1 in 13K | 428 | Gilde | 5 |
| US United States | 256 | 1 in 1.3M | 288 | Gilde | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 79 | 1 in 219K | 79 | Gilde | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
428 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Gilde is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, feast, banquet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a guild, feudal professional corporation with a legal status and privileges
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dative singular of ġild
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, party, do
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)
- Werner Gildeb. 1920DEGerman writer (1920-1991)
- Georg Gildeb. 1921EEEstonian athletics competitor and sportsperson (1921-2006)
- Christian Gildeb. 1946DEGerman politician
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gilde mean, and where does it come from?
- from Gilde; also related to Gold in some names Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Gilde have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 428 people named Gilde, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilde.
- Where is Gilde most common?
- Gilde is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gilde?
- In Norway, the national register counted 428 people named Gilde, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gildeThe 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, “Gilde”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.