Golke

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Golke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chad than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
  • TDChad≈1 in 6.9K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 179K

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.

Chad (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,400 people, est.

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Chad, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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

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)

Golke 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.

Where Golke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TD Chad#196≈2,400 est.≈1 in 6.9K—Golke1
DE Germany—≈450 est.≈1 in 179K—Golke61
US United States—1881 in 1.8M195Golke90
BR Brazil—1171 in 1.8M117——
AR Argentina—921 in 494K92——
SG Singapore—≈6 est.≈1 in 969K—Golke1

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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Golke is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gölke

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Arthur Golke, b. 1886Gustav Golke, b. 1889André Golke, b. 1964Tim Golke, b. 1982

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Golke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000195#88,461
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010188#96,799
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020145#124,450
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—117#56,228
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—92—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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

In which country does Golke have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Golke in Chad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled golke.
How common is the name Golke?
In the United States, the national register counted 188 people named Golke in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
How common is Golke compared with other names?
In Chad, Golke is the 196th most common surname of 674 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Golke” — the 196th most common surname in Chad. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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