Gonder
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Possibly a respelling of German Gander
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Gonder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Sint Maarten it is the 33rd most common surname.
- CACanada≈1 in 210Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 290Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 316K
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
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 880 (inferred from the name graph)
1,053 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sint Maarten, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Possibly a respelling of German Gander.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gonder 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 | — | 1,053 | 1 in 316K | 1.2K | Gonder | 214 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 292K | — | Gonder | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Gonder | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 428K | — | Gonder | 13 |
| PL Poland | — | 107 | 1 in 358K | 54 | — | 1 |
| SX Sint Maarten | #33 | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 880 | — | Gonder | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 26 | 1 in 323K | 26 | — | 4 |
1,053 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)Gonder is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of gandre
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)- Fernand Gonderb. 1883FRFrench athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault (1883-1969)
- Jesse Gonderb. 1936USAmerican baseball player (1936–2004)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,244 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 54 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 54 | #47,057 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 53 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 53 | #48,133 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- 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 Gonder mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly a respelling of German Gander. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gonder have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Gonder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gonder.
- How common is the name Gonder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,053 people named Gonder in 2010, about 1 in 316 thousand residents.
- How common is Gonder compared with other names?
- In Sint Maarten, Gonder is the 33rd most common surname of 335 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gonderThe 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, “Gonder” — the 33rd most common surname in Sint Maarten. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.