Gathers
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Possibly an altered form of North German Gather, a habitational name for someone from either of two places called Gath (near Krefeld and in Schleswig)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡad̪əz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gathers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 94K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 150K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
2,222 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Possibly an altered form of North German Gather, a habitational name for someone from either of two places called Gath (near Krefeld and in Schleswig).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gathers 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 | 2,222 | 1 in 150K | 2.2K | Gathers | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 8 | 1 in 94K | 8 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Gathers | 3 |
2,222 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Gathersb. 1930USathletics competitor (1930–2002)
- Hank Gathersb. 1967USAmerican basketball player (1967–1990)
- Rico Gathersb. 1994USAmerican football player
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,627 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,907 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 8 | #617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Gathers mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly an altered form of North German Gather, a habitational name for someone from either of two places called Gath (near Krefeld and in Schleswig). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gathers?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡad̪əz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gathers have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Gathers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gathers.
- Where is Gathers most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gathers is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 94 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gathers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,222 people named Gathers in 2010, about 1 in 150 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gathersThe 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, “Gathers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.