Goll
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from ME golle ‘an unfledged bird, a silly fellow’; first attested Thomas Golle 1297 SRY
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɑɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 163K
- ATAustria≈1 in 31K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
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 ME golle ‘an unfledged bird, a silly fellow’; first attested Thomas Golle 1297 SRY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Goll is read(measured from records)
Goll is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English61%
from ME golle ‘an unfledged bird, a silly fellow’; first attested Thomas Golle 1297 SRY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A hand.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German18%
Wohl aus einer Kurzform wie Godilo/Godelmar zu einem Rufnamen mit got- 'Gott'; 1102 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- French5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Goll in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Goll 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Goll | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Goll | 106 |
| US United States | 2,037 | 1 in 163K | 2K | Goll | 246 |
| BR Brazil | 566 | 1 in 374K | 566 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 196K | 34 | — | 3 |
| GH Ghana | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Goll | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Goll | 28 |
| CH Switzerland | 88 | 1 in 96K | 88 | Goll | 20 |
| FI Finland | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Goll | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Goll 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.
In Welsh, soft mutation of coll (“loss; lost”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gv, verbal noun of immee
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, goitre
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)
- Friedrich Gollb. 1829CHSwiss neuroanatomist (1829-1903)
- Jaroslav Gollb. 1846CZCzech member of Czech council, historian, translator, university educator and science writer (1846-1929)
- Josef Gollb. 1864ATCzech regional politician (1864-1924)
- Emil Gollb. 1865DEGerman politician (1865-1939)
- Edward Gollb. 1884AUAustralian musician
- Claire Gollb. 1890DEwriter and journalist (1890–1977)
- Yvan Gollb. 1891FRFrench-German poet, key figure in German Expressionism and French Surrealism (1891-1950)
- Bea Gollb. 1927HUHungarian actress
- Ulrich Gollb. 1950DEGerman politician
- Christine Gollb. 1956CHSwiss journalist and 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 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,612 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,750 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 566 | #15,224 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 88 | #12,221 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 34 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
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 Goll mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME golle ‘an unfledged bird, a silly fellow’; first attested Thomas Golle 1297 SRY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Goll?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goll have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Goll in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goll.
- How common is the name Goll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,037 people named Goll in 2010, about 1 in 163 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/gollThe 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, “Goll”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.