Gody

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gody is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M(measured from records)

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.

Costa Rica (measured from records)

2 people

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gody 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 Gody is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2——
FR France——40Gody108
CM Cameroon———Gody2
TZ Tanzania——1Gody2
BR Brazil——417——

2 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Gody is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Philippines, Mexico, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gödy

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

    Also written Gödy

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Gödy

34 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)

Gody is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, wedding reception (festivities accompanying a marriage ceremony)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, outhouse or small building; shed.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dsb, superseded spelling of gódy

    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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Gody
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—417#20,032
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196158—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199140—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)189115—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Is Gody a male or female name?
Gody is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Gody have the most bearers?
In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 2 people named Gody, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gody most common?
Gody is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Gody?
In Costa Rica, the national register counted 2 people named Gody, about 1 in 2.5 million 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, “Gody”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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