Goude

surname · Latin script

Meaning: metonymic occupational name for a goldsmith, from goud ‘gold’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɡaʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Goude is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Grenada it is the 25th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 800K(measured from records)
  • SESweden≈1 in 46K
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 50K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈690 people, est.

Sources
133 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

metonymic occupational name for a goldsmith, from goud ‘gold’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Goude 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.

Where Goude is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—≈690 est.≈1 in 98K96—1
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈540 est.≈1 in 50K144——
CM Cameroon—≈500 est.≈1 in 56K—Goude1
US United States—4161 in 800K514Goude133
SE Sweden—≈220 est.≈1 in 46K—Goude14
LB Lebanon—≈55 est.≈1 in 99K—Goude1
GD Grenada#25———Goude1

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 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Goude is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Goudé

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Goude is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, variant of Good.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Breton, après

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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)

1850190019502000Jane Goude, b. 1891Gunnar Goude, b. 1932Ingrid Goude, b. 1937Jean-Paul Goude, b. 1938Paulo Goude, b. 1979Gwenaëlle Goude, b. 1979

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)

FormalDear Goude,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Goude
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020514#44,906
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000498#41,262
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010416#50,275
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951157—
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—144#2,807
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961138—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981130—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931100—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192197—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199196—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197194—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194191—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Goude mean, and where does it come from?
metonymic occupational name for a goldsmith, from goud ‘gold’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Goude?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡaʊd/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Goude have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 692 people named Goude in France, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Goude?
In the United States, the national register counted 416 people named Goude in 2010, about 1 in 800 thousand residents.
How common is Goude compared with other names?
In Grenada, Goude is the 25th most common surname of 3,427 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Goude” — the 25th most common surname in Grenada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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