Gandul
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: loafing, lazy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Gandul is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 74K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
672 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)lazy, loafing
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Gandul is read
(measured from records)Gandul is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish74%
loafing, lazy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Catalan17%
lazy, loafing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gandul in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gandul 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 672 | 1 in 74K | 672 | Gandul | 11 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Gandul | 23 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Gandul | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Gandul | 12 |
672 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)Gandul is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, ( V-gip ap. Etxba Eib ). "Se dice en el mismo sentido que ganbelua, gangarra. Laster ikusi genduan gandul aundi bat zana " Etxba Eib . Cf. galdul. Domingo Kanpaña gandul arrek, gaur goizian egun laurdena galdu dik . Bil 172.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Francisco Pérez Gandulb. 1956ESSpanish journalist and writer
- Martha Betancourt GandulCuban botanist
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 672 | #6,285 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 672 | #6,285 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gandul come from?
- lazy, loafing Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Gandul mean?
- In Spanish, loafing, lazy
- In which country does Gandul have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 672 people named Gandul, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gandul.
- Where is Gandul most common?
- Gandul is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 74 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gandul?
- In Spain, the national register counted 672 people named Gandul, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gandulThe 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, “Gandul”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.