Guth
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Guth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from modem German and Yiddish gut.
- DEGermany≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 96K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 28K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from modem German and Yiddish gut. Middle High German guot ‘good’ or ‘capable’. This may be a nickname, but in the Middle Ages the term also denoted a freeman or a vassal of noble birth, and the surname may be a status name from this sense. As a Jewish surname it is often ornamental. Compare Gutman.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guth 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Guth | 6 |
| DE Germany | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Guth | 136 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Guth | 1 |
| US United States | 3,453 | 1 in 96K | 3.5K | Guth | 291 |
| FR France | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 231 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Guth | 26 |
| SG Singapore | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Guth | 5 |
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; the dfa-band-2 register; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Guth 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 German, zu mhd. guot, mnd. gût/gôt ‘tüchtig, gütig, von vornehmem Stand’; 2261 Belege. Platte zeigt h-Schreibung als Konsonantenvariante (Guth, Guther).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In Scottish Gaelic, voice
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)
- Jean Baptiste Guthb. 1855FRFrench illustrator and caricaturist (1855-1922)
- Charles George Guthb. 1877USAmerican businessman
- Amy Guthb. 1901USAmerican journalist and writer
- Eugene Guthb. 1905USAmerican physicist (1905-1990)
- Paul Guthb. 1910FRFrench writer
- Raymond Guthb. 1924USactor
- Alan Guthb. 1947USAmerican theoretical physicist and cosmologist
- Otto Guevarab. 1960CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican politician
- Jens Guthb. 1966DEGerman politician
- Larry Guthb. 1976USAmerican mathematician
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,418 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,847 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 310 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 306 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 288 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 279 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 262 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 254 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 247 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 241 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 231 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Where does the name Guth come from?
- from modem German and Yiddish gut. Middle High German guot ‘good’ or ‘capable’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Guth mean?
- Recorded meaning: from modem German and Yiddish gut.
- In which country does Guth have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Guth in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guth.
- How common is the name Guth?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,453 people named Guth in 2010, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guthThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Guth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.