Gouda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: La ville de Gouda, aux Pays-Bas, produit un fromage renommé à pâte pressée
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gouda 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
- BEBelgium1 in 902K
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 Gouda 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 902K (inferred from the name graph)
132,382 named Goud
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 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)
La ville de Gouda, aux Pays-Bas, produit un fromage renommé à pâte pressée.
Sources 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gouda 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 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Gouda | 17 |
| BE Belgium | — | 13 | 1 in 902K | 13 | Gouda | 6 |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Gouda 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 English, city, Netherlands; cheese
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Dutch, Gouda (a city and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Gouda (a city in South Holland, Netherlands)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, gouda (semi-hard Dutch cheese)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, punomasni sir porijeklom iz Nizozemske
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Hiroshi Gohdab. 1964JPnot in their usual nameJapanese professional golfer
- Tsuneo Gōdab. 1967JPnot in their usual nameJapanese animator (1967-)
- Aya Godab. 1967JPnot in their usual nameJapanese artist
- Ayana Gôdab. 1994JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
- Yukiko Gōdab. 2000JPnot in their usual nameJapanese molecular biologist
- Eri GōdaJPnot in their usual nameJapanese voice actress
- Saori Godanot in their usual nameactress
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 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 131K | #38 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 36K | #408 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 801 | #4,709 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 180 | #2,340 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 64 | #1,220 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 33 | #8,022 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #937 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 13 | #61,668 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #15,766 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Gouda mean?
- Recorded meaning: La ville de Gouda, aux Pays-Bas, produit un fromage renommé à pâte pressée.
- In which country does Gouda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 132 thousand people named Goud, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gouda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gouda is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 902 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gouda?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 13 people named Gouda in 2008, about 1 in 902 thousand residents.
- How common is Gouda compared with other names?
- In India, Gouda 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/goudaThe 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, “Gouda” — the 311th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.