Gauthier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Germanic wald + heri, 'rule' + 'army'; St Gauthier
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡotje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gauthier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In France it is the 52nd most common surname.
- CACanada≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.8K
- USUnited States1 in 20K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Germanic wald + heri, 'rule' + 'army'; St Gauthier.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gauthier 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Gauthier | 7 |
| FR France | #52 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 18K | Gauthier | 338 |
| CA Canada | #205 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Gauthier | 243 |
| US United States | — | 16,852 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Gauthier | 306 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Gauthier | 61 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 1 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 473 | 1 in 7.2K | 473 | — | — |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 5 | — | 6 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gauthier 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, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wald ‘rule’ -I- hari, heri ‘army’ (see Walter). This name is also found in Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, du nom germanique Waldhari, de wald « pouvoir, autorité » et hari « armée »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Du germanique wald- « gouverner » + hari « armée » ; nom associé à un chef de guerre, fête non indiquée.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du germ. Waldhari, « chef de l’armée ». Fête: 8 avril (saint Gauthier de Pontoise).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, voir Gonthier
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Jean François Gauthierb. 1708FRFrench physician and botanist (1708–1756)
- David Gauthierb. 1932CACanadian philosopher (1932–2023)
- Claude Gauthierb. 1939CACanadian actor and singer
- Jacques A. Gauthierb. 1948USAmerican paleontologist (1948- )
- Michel Gauthierb. 1950CACanadian politician (1950-2020)
- Vincent Gauthierb. 1950FRFrench actor
- Dan Gauthierb. 1963USactor
- Yvan Gauthierb. 1969FRFrench film director
- Chris Gauthierb. 1976GBBritish actor (1976–2024)
- Julien Gauthierb. 1997CACanadian ice hockey player (born 1997)
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 58 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,025 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,221 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4.8K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 473 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- How do you pronounce Gauthier?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡotje/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Gauthier mean, and where does it come from?
- From Germanic wald + heri, 'rule' + 'army'; St Gauthier. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- In which country does Gauthier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 105 thousand people named Gauthier in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gauthier.
- What are other forms of the name Gauthier?
- In the etymology graph, Gautier, Walther and Wolter are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Gauthier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,852 people named Gauthier in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Gauthier compared with other names?
- In France, Gauthier is the 52nd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gauthierThe 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, “Gauthier” — the 52nd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.