Gor
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Armenia it is the 58th most common given name.
- AMArmenia≈1 in 275as Գոռ(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 6Kas Kari
- BEBelgium≈1 in 102K
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 Gor 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
55,005 named Kari, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gauri in US United States, NO Norway, NP Nepal, Kari in FI Finland, Գոռ in AM Armenia and Gouri in SE Sweden.
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)
chaleur (étouffée) ; abcès, pus, incubation ; combustible
Sources 3
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gor 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 | — | 55,005as Kari | 1 in 6K | 75K | Gauri | 216 |
| FI Finland | — | 41,301as Kari | 1 in 135 | 57K | Kari | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 22,263as Kari | 1 in 246 | 72K | Gauri | 4 |
| AM Armenia | #58 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 275 | 299 | Գոռ | 82 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 21K | Gauri | 30 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,109as Kari | 1 in 3.3K | 3.1K | Gouri | 7 |
| IS Iceland | — | 937as Kári | 1 in 374 | 937 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 131 | 1 in 292K | 303 | Gore | 9 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 2.1K | — | 16 |
55,005 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling kari. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); 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)
Gor is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, acronym of gelanggang olahraga (“sports arena”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-ecg, cooked, done (of food such as meat or vegetables: ready for consumption)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, A weapon (especially one with a sharp point, such as a spear or sword)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, grave (now mostly in idiomatic expressions); the afterlife
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Gorontalo.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, first/third-person singular preterite of gären
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)
- Sergio Gorb. 1986USco-founder of Winning Team Publishing and director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 507 | #45,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 402 | #51,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 362 | #25,481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 285 | #65,133 |
| AM Armenia | Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names | 2025 | 273 | #17 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 131 | #1,724 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 123 | #1,699 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #18,559 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,618 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,158 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 20 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Gor?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɔɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Gor have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 55 thousand people named Kari, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gor?
- In Poland, the national register counted 131 people named Gor in 2026, about 1 in 292 thousand residents.
- How common is Gor compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Gor is the 58th most common given name of 7,577 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gor?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gorThe 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, “Gor” — the 58th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.