Gaude
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Prussian name; also from the saint name Gaudentius 'joyful'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəud/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaude is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 91K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 64K
- ARArgentina1 in 376K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
14,588 people
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Prussian name; also from the saint name Gaudentius 'joyful'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaude 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 14,588 | 1 in 91K | 15K | Gaude | 48 |
| FR France | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 139 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Gaude | 8 |
| US United States | 121 | 1 in 2.7M | 177 | Gaude | 12 |
| AR Argentina | 121 | 1 in 376K | 121 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | — |
14,588 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Gaude 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 French, weld, dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, First-person plural (gu) present indicative form of egon (“to be”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of gaudeō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, third-person singular present indicative of gaudere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, jest, joke, prank, trick
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)
- Francesco Gaudeb. 1809ITItalian cardinal (1809-1860)
- Hans-Ludwig Gaudeb. 1916PLGerman navy officer and world war II U-boat commander
- Daniel Gaudeb. 1948FRFrench politician
- Murielle Gaude-Ferragub. 1950FRFrench historian
- Gianni Gaudeb. 1956ITItalian voice actor
- Laurent Gaudéb. 1972FRFrench writer
- Muhammad Isa GaudeNGwriter
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15K | #6 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 15K | #769 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 217 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 199 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 190 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 190 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 177 | #107,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 177 | #95,567 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 175 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 172 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 151 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 140 | — |
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
- What does the name Gaude mean, and where does it come from?
- Prussian name; also from the saint name Gaudentius 'joyful' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Gaude?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəud/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What are other forms of the name Gaude?
- In the etymology graph, Weld and Gualda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gaude have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Gaude, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaude.
- How common is the name Gaude?
- In India, the national register counted 14,588 people named Gaude, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaudeThe 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, “Gaude”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.