Godó

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Godó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév.

  • HUHungary≈1 in 10Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 210K
  • BRBrazil1 in 890K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Hungary (inferred from the name graph)

≈920 people, est.

Record sources
39 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Godo in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Alapszavaként igen sok God- kezdetű keresztnév jöhetne számításba, de az Árpádok korában közülük a délszláv eredetű, ’ünnep + béke’ jelentésű Godimir, az ’ünnep + dicsőség’ jelentésű Godiszláv, a germán eredetű, ’Isten + barát’ jelentésű Godwin volt gyakori. Természetesen lehetséges a germán eredetű, Gott- kezdetű nevek latinon keresztüli megmagyarosodása is, amelyekben a magánhangzók közé kerülő -t- még a latinban zöngésült -d- vé: Gottfried > Godefridus ’Isten + béke’, Gotthard > Godehardus ’Isten + bátor’. A fölsoroltak bármelyike lerövidülhetett egy szótagú alakra (God-), s fölvehette a magyar -ó kicsinyítő képzőt, s egyéni névvé vált. Az egyéni nevekből általában apai családnevek alakultak. Jelentésük ekkor ’Godó nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’ lett. Elterjedtsége: Az Alföldön, Jászságban és Heves megyében gyakoribb.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Godó 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 Godó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary≈920 est.≈1 in 10K—Godó39
ES Spain2381 in 210K238——
BR Brazil2381 in 890K238——
US United States1901 in 1.8M235Godo14
IN India131 in 102M13—1
BE Belgium61 in 2M6—1

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)

Godó is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Spain, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Godo, Godô, Gödö, Gódo, Gódò

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Godo, Godoe, Gódo, Godö, Goedő

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Godo

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Côte d’Ivoire, Spain

    Also written Godo, Godô

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gödo, Gōdo, Godo

  • Polish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Godo

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Godo, Godö

4 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
18001850190019502000Carles Godó i Pié, b. 1834Bartomeu Godó i Pié, b. 1839Joan Godó i Llucià, b. 1851Ramón Godó Lallana, b. 1864Carlos Godó Valls, b. 1899Mihály Godó, b. 1913Xavier Benguerel, b. 1931Jordi Bonet, b. 1932Javier Godó Muntañola, b. 1941Carlos Godó Valls, b. 1967

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)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Godó mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
In which country does Godó have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 918 people named Godó in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled godó.
How common is the name Godó?
In Spain, the national register counted 238 people named Godó, about 1 in 210 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, “Godó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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