Ğander
surname · Latin script
Ğander is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”).
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.2K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 161K
- USUnited States1 in 184K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,804 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishgandre(measured from records)
- Old Englishgandra“gander”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*ganʀō(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*ganzô“gander”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰh₂éns“goose”(measured from records)
From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch gander (“gander”), Low German Gander, Ganner (“gander”), dialectal German Gandert (“gander”), German Ganter (“gander”), Norwegian gasse (“gander”), Icelandic gassi (“gander”). Compare also Lithuanian gañdras (“stork”). Related to goose, gannet.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ğander 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 | 1,804 | 1 in 184K | 1.8K | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 1,353 | 1 in 6.2K | 1.4K | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 88 | 1 in 2.4M | 88 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Ğander | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 34 | 1 in 300K | 34 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 22 | 1 in 253K | 22 | — | — |
1,804 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ğander mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Ğander have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Ğander, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ğander most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ğander is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 6.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ğander?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,804 people named Ğander in 2010, about 1 in 184 thousand residents.
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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, “Ğander”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.