Gante

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Ghent (a city in Belgium)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɡant̪e/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.6M
  • ARArgentina1 in 4.1M

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.

United States (measured from records)

305 people, 2010

Sources
99 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Ghent (a city in Belgium)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gante 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.

Where Gante is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3051 in 1.1M305Gante99
IN India2501 in 5.3M250Gante10
BR Brazil1341 in 1.6M134——
ES Spain121 in 4.2M12Gante8
AR Argentina111 in 4.1M11——

305 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gante is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines

    Also written Gânte

  • Telugu given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Gaṇṭi, Ganta, గంటి, గంట, Gaṇṭā

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Kuwait, Egypt, Philippines

    Also written Gãñtė, Ğántẻ, Gäñtê

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gante 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 Portuguese, Ghent (a city, the provincial capital of East Flanders, Belgium)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Asturian, Ghent (the capital city of East Flanders, Belgium)

    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)

14001600180020002200Pedro de Gante, b. 1480Margarita Mariscal de Gante, b. 1954Anna Gante, b. 2002

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Gante
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010305#65,066
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020268#77,203
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—250#15,154
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000182#93,427
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—135#18,544
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—134#50,632
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12#109,635
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—11—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—9#10,302
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Gante mean, and where does it come from?
Ghent (a city in Belgium) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Gante?
A machine transcription gives /ɡant̪e/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Gante have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 305 people named Gante, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gante.
Where is Gante most common?
Gante is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Gante?
In the United States, the national register counted 305 people named Gante in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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, “Gante”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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