Gode
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Old English personal name; surviving in Good
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gode is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 4.1Kas Goda(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 10Kas Goud
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 22K
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 Gode 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
132,382 named Goud
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gouda in EG Egypt, BR Brazil, AE United Arab Emirates and 1 more and Goud in IN India, ID Indonesia, JP Japan.
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)
Old English personal name; surviving in Good
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gode 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #311 | 132,382as Goud | 1 in 10K | 132K | Goud | 197 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Gouda | 109 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Goud | 9 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 982 | — | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Goud | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Gouda | 45 |
| BR Brazil | — | 651 | 1 in 325K | 651 | Gouda | 15 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Gouda | 17 |
132,382 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Gode is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patro- oder Metronym aus einstämmiger Kurzform mit Stammvokal o; möglich auch Anschluss an Übernamen. 260 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In lld, first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of goder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, third-person singular present indicative of godere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite natural masculine singular of god
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, a benefit, blessing, boon
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)
- Götz Godeb. 1905DEGerman writer (1905-1969)
- Alexander Godeb. 1906USGerman-American linguist and translator (1906-1970)
- Lutz Godeb. 1940DEGerman painter and sculptor
- Andrew Godeb. 1990AUcricketer
- Hillary Godeb. 2003FRFrench athlete
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 982 | #540 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 807 | #4,681 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 651 | #13,418 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 368 | #11,557 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Gode mean, and where does it come from?
- Old English personal name; surviving in Good Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Gode have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 132 thousand people named Goud, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gode?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 651 people named Gode, about 1 in 325 thousand residents.
- How common is Gode compared with other names?
- In India, Gode is the 311th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/godeThe 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, “Gode” — the 311th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.