Golab
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡoʊˌɫæb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Golab is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Polish Gołąb.
- NONorway1 in 137K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 232K
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
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 Golab 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 137K (inferred from the name graph)
464 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled গোলাব in IN India.
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)
- PolishGołąb(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*golǫbь(inferred from the name graph)via Gołąb
- Vulgar Latincolumbus(inferred from the name graph)via Gołąb
- Ancient Greekκόλυμβοςkólumbos(inferred from the name graph)via Gołąb
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Polish Gołąb.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Golab 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.
464 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Tony Golabb. 1919CACanadian football player (1919-2016)
- Vladimír Golabb. 1951Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament and Slovak nation politician
- Amir-Abbas Golabb. 1986IRIranian singer
- Elzbieta GolabPLPolish parasitologist
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 518 | #44,611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 464 | #45,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 440 | #45,735 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 40 | #30,314 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 39 | #15,389 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 24 | #40,527 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #31,350 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #18,884 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #622 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Golab mean, and where does it come from?
- From Polish Gołąb. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Golab?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡoʊˌɫæb/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Golab have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 464 people named Golab, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled golab.
- Where is Golab most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Golab is densest in Norway — about 1 in 137 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Golab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 464 people named Golab in 2010, about 1 in 717 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Golab?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golabThe 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, “Golab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.