Gů
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gů is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Mandarin 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese.
- USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 172K
- FRFrance≈1 in 97Kas Gue
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 Gů 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named Gue, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gu in US United States, AU Australia, DE Germany and 2 more.
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 Mandarin 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Russian Names
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gů 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 | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Gu | 108 |
| US United States | — | 5,532 | 1 in 60K | 9.1K | Gu | 331 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 3.1K | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 79 | Gu | 165 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Gu | 80 |
| SE Sweden | — | 173 | 1 in 59K | 173 | — | 16 |
| FI Finland | — | 171 | 1 in 33K | 171 | — | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 124 | 1 in 44K | 124 | — | 4 |
| AU Australia | #881 | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 362K | — | Gu | 151 |
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Gů mean, and where does it come from?
- From Mandarin 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Russian Names and 2 other sources.
- Is Gů a male or female name?
- Gů is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gů have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Gue in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gů most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gů is densest in Finland — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gů?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,532 people named Gů in 2010, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Gů compared with other names?
- In Australia, Gů is the 881st most common surname of 552,428 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C5%AFThe 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, “Gů” — the 881st most common surname in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.