Gogol
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Ukrainian gogol ‘wild duck’, ‘mallard’, a nickname denoting a wildfowler or acquired on account of some other association with the bird
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɒɡɒl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gogol is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 49K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 234K
- CACanada≈1 in 322K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
783 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
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 Ukrainian gogol ‘wild duck’, ‘mallard’, a nickname denoting a wildfowler or acquired on account of some other association with the bird. The Jewish name may be ornamental.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gogol is read(measured from records)
Gogol is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English49%
Nikolai, Russian writer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gogol in Spanish.
- German9.6%
from Pol. gógola 'wild apple tree'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Polish8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gogol in Polish.
- French5.8%
Voir Mongol(ien) .
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gogol 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.
783 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Gogol 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.
from Ukrainian gogol ‘wild duck’, ‘mallard’, a nickname denoting a wildfowler or acquired on account of some other association with the bird. The Jewish name may be ornamental.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from Gogole, a village in northeastern Poland.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Russian, "golden-eye duck."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Jonah Gogolb. 1505Polish bishop
- Vasyl Panasovych Gogol-Yanovskyb. 1777UAUkrainian noble and writer
- Nikolai Gogolb. 1809UARussian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
- Anna Grigorevna Gogolb. 1901UAUkrainian Soviet party leader
- Avtandil Gogolb. 1922GEGeorgian hygienist
- Michał Mieszko Gogolb. 1985PLPolish volleyball player
- Curt Gogolb. 1991CACanadian ice hockey player
- Darek Gogolartist
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 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 403 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 403 | #8,066 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 380 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 380 | #8,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 350 | #58,042 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 330 | #65,003 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 327 | #58,130 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 86 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #49,638 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 7 | #13,677 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,429 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Gogol come from?
- from Ukrainian gogol ‘wild duck’, ‘mallard’, a nickname denoting a wildfowler or acquired on account of some other association with the bird. The Jewish name may be ornamental. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gogol?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɒɡɒl/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gogol mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Ukrainian gogol ‘wild duck’, ‘mallard’, a nickname denoting a wildfowler or acquired on account of some other association with the bird.
- In which country does Gogol have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 783 people named Gogol, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gogol.
- Where is Gogol most common?
- Gogol is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 49 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gogol?
- In Poland, the national register counted 783 people named Gogol in 2026, about 1 in 49 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/gogolThe 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, “Gogol”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.