Gaudet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic personal name Waldo (from waldan ‘to govern’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡoʊˈdɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaudet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 69K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54Kas Godet
- BEBelgium1 in 56Kas Godet
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gaudet 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
4,814 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 the Germanic personal name Waldo (from waldan ‘to govern’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaudet 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 | 4,814 | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Gaudet | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 211as Godet | 1 in 56K | 211 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 65as Godet | 1 in 129K | 65 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 40as Godet | 1 in 1.3M | 40 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 39as Godet | 1 in 443K | 39 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1as Godet | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
4,814 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Gaudet 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 French, Dérivé du nom germanique Waldo, de wald « pouvoir, autorité ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of gaudeō
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)
- Joseph Gaudetb. 1818CACanadian politician (1818–1882)
- Françoise Gaudet-Smetb. 1902CACanadian journalist
- Liliane Gaudetb. 1930FRFrench actress
- Francine Gaudetb. 1948CACanadian politician
- Sonja Gaudetb. 1966CACanadian wheelchair curler
- Benoit Gaudetb. 1979CACanadian boxer
- Joe Gaudetb. 1984USAmerican actor and voice actor
- Ava Gaudetb. 1986USAmerican actress and singer
- Derek Gaudetb. 1989CACanadian soccer player (born 1989)
- Creole Gaudetactor
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.8K | #6,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #6,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.6K | #6,757 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 25 | #41,459 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5 | #168,693 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Gaudet mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic personal name Waldo (from waldan ‘to govern’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gaudet?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊˈdɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gaudet have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Gaudet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaudet.
- Where is Gaudet most common?
- Gaudet is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 69 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gaudet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,814 people named Gaudet in 2010, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaudetThe 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, “Gaudet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.