Goedecke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of Godefried, Low German form of Gottfried
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡoʊdɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goedecke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 838K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 297K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Goedecke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from a pet form of Godefried, Low German form of Gottfried.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goedecke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Goedecke | 92 |
| US United States | 397 | 1 in 838K | 397 | Goedecke | 140 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 650K | — | Goedecke | 30 |
| AU Australia | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Goedecke | 42 |
| CA Canada | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 596K | — | Goedecke | 21 |
| AT Austria | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | Goedecke | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 15as Gödecke | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | 3 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Adolf Goedeckeb. 1860DEPrussian administrative official and district administrator
- Rudolf Goedeckeb. 1877DEGerman architect
- Heinrich Goedeckeb. 1881DEGerman jurist (1881–1959)
- Heinz Goedeckeb. 1902DEvoice actor (1902-1959)
- Wolfgang Goedeckeb. 1906DEGerman rower
- Klaus Goedeckeb. 1939DEGerman politician of Social Democratic Party
- Julia GoedeckeGBPh.D. University of Cambridge 2010
- Andreas GoedeckeDEresearcher
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 397 | #52,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 396 | #49,767 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 379 | #57,938 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #48,932 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Goedecke mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of Godefried, Low German form of Gottfried. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goedecke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡoʊdɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goedecke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Goedecke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goedecke.
- How common is the name Goedecke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 397 people named Goedecke in 2010, about 1 in 838 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goedeckeThe 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, “Goedecke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.