Gol
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Voir Mongol(ien)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɒl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gol is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 407K(measured from records)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 3.3K
- NLNetherlands1 in 86K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Voir Mongol(ien) .
Sources 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gol 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 1 | — | 4 |
| IN India | 3,256 | 1 in 407K | 3.3K | Gol | 45 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Gol | 11 |
| PL Poland | 350 | 1 in 109K | 180 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 302 | 1 in 166K | 302 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 202 | 1 in 86K | 202 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 25 | 1 in 235K | 25 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Gol 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 German, from Slavic goly 'naked, bare'; related to holek/holec/holka/holic
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In cdo, to bless with abundance my men and their wives
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to kneel and worship, (sing-goito kneel down
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Portuguese, soccer goal [BP]
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In kw, contraction of gool (“feast, fair; vigil, wake, watch”)
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)
- Gerardus Gulb. 1847NLnot in their usual nameDutch bishop
- José Pont y Golb. 1907ESSpanish priest (1907-1995)
- Gifré Golb. 1944ESSpanish basketball player
- Darko Golb. 1954DEGerman sculptor
- Sheikh Sajjad Gulb. 1974INnot in their usual nameKashmiri militant commander and supreme of The Resistance Front
- Sohel Altan Golb. 1989DETurkish-German actor (born 1989)
- Amena Gulb. 1993THnot in their usual nameThai actress
- Sadia Gulb. 1998PKnot in their usual namePakistani professional squash player (born 1998)
- Messi Gulnot in their usual nameactor
- Shai GulILnot in their usual nameIsraeli 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 3.3K | #2,148 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 302 | #12,021 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 302 | #11,990 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 299 | #1,729 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 202 | #10,311 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 180 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 180 | #18,102 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 170 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 170 | #18,746 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 25 | #19,240 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #131 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Gol mean, and where does it come from?
- Voir Mongol(ien) . Recorded by 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages).
- How do you pronounce Gol?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɒl/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Gol have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Gol in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gol?
- In India, the national register counted 3,256 people named Gol, about 1 in 407 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golThe 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, “Gol”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.