Goedel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from German
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡoʊdəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goedel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 286Kas Godel(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4Mas Godel
- NLNetherlands1 in 258K
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 Goedel 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- 1 in 258K (inferred from the name graph)
≈730 named Godel, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Godel in US United States, CH Switzerland, JM Jamaica and Gödel in DE Germany.
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)A surname from German. Alternative form of Gödel.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Goedel 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 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 100 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 373as Godel | 1 in 23K | 373 | Godel | 19 |
| DE Germany | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 286K | listed | Gödel | 48 |
| US United States | 246as Godel | 1 in 1.4M | 292 | Godel | 136 |
| BR Brazil | 119 | 1 in 1.8M | 119 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 67 | 1 in 258K | 67 | Goedel | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Godel | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)- Gustav Goedelb. 1847DEGerman writer (1847-1918)
- Werner Goedelb. 1964DEGerman physical chemist
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 195 | #99,304 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 168 | #99,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 164 | #108,199 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 119 | #55,507 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 67 | #25,622 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Goedel come from?
- A surname from German. Alternative form of Gödel. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Goedel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊdəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Goedel mean?
- Recorded meaning: A surname from German.
- In which country does Goedel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 725 people named Godel in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Goedel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Goedel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 258 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Goedel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 119 people named Goedel, about 1 in 1.8 million 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/goedelThe 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, “Goedel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.