Gobert
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval personal name, Godebert, composed of the Germanic elements god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gobert is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 182K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a medieval personal name, Godebert, composed of the Germanic elements god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. The name was popularized in England by the Normans, and probably absorbed an Old English form Godbeorht. An Exeter moneyer named Godbryt is recorded in the reign of King Canute (1016-35).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Gobert is found
(measured from records)Gobert 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #868 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 724 | Gobert | 245 |
| BE Belgium | #379 | 2,246 | 1 in 5.2K | 2.2K | Gobert | 80 |
| US United States | — | 1,827 | 1 in 182K | 1.8K | Gobert | 80 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Gobert | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Gobert | 19 |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)- Pierre Gobertb. 1662FRFrench painter (1662-1744)
- André Gobertb. 1890FRFrench tennis player (1890-1951)
- Rudy Gobertb. 1992FRFrench basketball player (born 1992)
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gobert mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval personal name, Godebert, composed of the Germanic elements god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gobert?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Gobert in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gobert. After it come Belgium, United States, Congo - Kinshasa and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gobert most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gobert is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 5.2 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gobert?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,246 people named Gobert in 2008, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Gobert compared with other names?
- In France, Gobert is the 868th 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/gobertThe 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, “Gobert” — the 868th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.