Godina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from the adjective goden ‘ripe’, ‘mature’, formed with the augmentative suffix -ina
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/godina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Godina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 104K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 8.5K
- CLChile≈1 in 62K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,203 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from the adjective goden ‘ripe’, ‘mature’, formed with the augmentative suffix -ina.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Godina 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.
3,203 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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Godina 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.
variant of Codina, a topographic name from codina ‘stony field’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the female personal name Godina, possibly of Germanic origin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of godină
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sla-pro, hour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, year
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)
- Ferdo Godinab. 1912SIwriter, children's writer and partisan
- Milena Godinab. 1912ITSlovenian actress
- Karpo Godinab. 1943MKCinematographer
- Marko Godinab. 1943SIplastic surgeon
- Vesna Godinab. 1957SISlovene anthropologist
- Tanja Godinab. 1970SISlovenian swimmer
- John Godinab. 1972USAmerican shot putter
- Yelena Godinab. 1977RUvolleyball player
- Karolina GodinaSIresearcher
- Andrej GodinaSIresearcher
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,624 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,566 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 247 | #1,684 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 61 | #11,541 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 57 | — |
| 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)
- 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
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 Godina mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from the adjective goden ‘ripe’, ‘mature’, formed with the augmentative suffix -ina. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Godina?
- A machine transcription gives /godina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Godina have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Godina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled godina.
- Where is Godina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Godina is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 8.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Godina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,203 people named Godina in 2010, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/godinaThe 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, “Godina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.