Gaudin

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: from the Germanic personal name Waldo (from waldan ‘to govern’) or a derivative of gaut- ‘Goth’. A Huguenot family called Gaudin, from La Rochelle, was in Quebec city in 1655

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

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

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 16K
  • BEBelgium1 in 135K

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)

1,194 people, 2010

Sources
62 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from AFr Waldin, OFr Gaudin, a diminutive of Germanic names in Wald-; first attested Waldinus 1066 DB (Somerset)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

How Gaudin is read(measured from records)

Gaudin is one spelling over 2 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.

  • French77%

    from the Germanic personal name Waldo (from waldan ‘to govern’) or a derivative of gaut- ‘Goth’. A Huguenot family called Gaudin, from La Rochelle, was in Quebec city in 1655. Another, from Burgundy, was in Montreal in 1654; and one from Normandy had arrived in Quebec city by 1656.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    Voir Godin.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • English16%

    from AFr Waldin, OFr Gaudin, a diminutive of Germanic names in Wald-; first attested Waldinus 1066 DB (Somerset)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Gaudin 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 Gaudin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,1941 in 279K1.3KGaudin62
CH Switzerland5211 in 16K521Gaudin4
UY Uruguay3141 in 11K314Gaudin20
AR Argentina1611 in 282K161Gaudin32
BE Belgium871 in 135K87—1

1,194 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gaudin is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gaudín

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia

    Also written Гаудин

44 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)

Gaudin 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 Italian, de Gaudio com sufixo truncado -in

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

12001400160018002000Thibaud Gaudin, b. 1229Martin Michel Charles Gaudin, b. 1756Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin, b. 1804André Gaudin, b. 1874Lucien Gaudin, b. 1886Michel Gaudin, b. 1931Henri Gaudin, b. 1933Jean-Claude Gaudin, b. 1939Christian Gaudin, b. 1953Damien Gaudin, b. 1986

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Gaudin, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Gaudin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#21,233
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.2K#21,774
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#21,323
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024521#2,477
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—314—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—161—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200887#17,346
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Gaudin come from?
from AFr Waldin, OFr Gaudin, a diminutive of Germanic names in Wald-; first attested Waldinus 1066 DB (Somerset) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Gaudin?
A machine transcription gives /ɡodɛ̃/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Gaudin mean?
In French, from the Germanic personal name Waldo (from waldan ‘to govern’) or a derivative of gaut- ‘Goth’. A Huguenot family called Gaudin, from La Rochelle, was in Quebec city in 1655.
In which country does Gaudin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Gaudin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaudin.
Where is Gaudin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gaudin is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gaudin?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,194 people named Gaudin in 2010, about 1 in 279 thousand 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, “Gaudin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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