Gokel
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡoʊkəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gokel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 11M
- INIndia≈1 in 40M
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈33 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gokel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 40M | 1 | Gokel | 11 |
| US United States | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | Gokel | 18 |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gokel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, Prokem form of gele
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)
- Julien Gokelb. 1983FRFrench politician
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #103,156 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #31,618 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Gokel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊkəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gokel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 people named Gokel in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gokel.
- Where is Gokel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gokel is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 2.3 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gokel?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 5 people named Gokel in 2008, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gokel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gokelThe 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, “Gokel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.