Golli
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Golli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Golli is also written గోళ్ళ in Telugu.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 150K
- UYUruguay1 in 523as Gallo
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 Golli 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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
29,518 named Gallo
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Golli in other scripts: Latin and Telugu
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Golla in IN India, US United States.
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Golli is found
(measured from records)Golli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 29,518as Gallo | 1 in 1.5K | 30K | — | — |
| IN India | 26,445as Golla | 1 in 50K | 26K | Golla | 114 |
| US United States | 23,056as Gallo | 1 in 14K | 23K | Golla | 141 |
| BR Brazil | 10,577as Gallo | 1 in 20K | 11K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 6,475as Gallo | 1 in 523 | 6.5K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | 5,737as Gallo | 1 in 2.9K | 5.7K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 1,939as Galli | 1 in 4.3K | 1.9K | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1,617as Gallo | 1 in 3.2K | 1.6K | — | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 311 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 14 | 1 in 150K | 14 | — | 1 |
29,518 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INEC — civil registry names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Golli is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In non, dative singular of goll
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of colli
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, gold
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, GOLLI . (Forma con palat. expresiva). "1.º (L-côte, BN-baig), rojizo (Dim. de gorri ). 2.º (Sal, R), carmesí" A. Antxume ta arkume otzanak pozik artuko ituke: [...] naiz txuri naiz beltx, [...] naiz golli . "O bien rojitos" . A Ortzuri 136. " Bilainz-golli golli (R), completamente desnudo" A (s.v. golli ) .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Bojan Gollib. 1950SISlovene physicist
- Tanja GolliSIresearcher
- Drago Karol GolliSIresearcher
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Golli?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Gallo, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, United States, Brazil and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Golli?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 14 people named Golli, about 1 in 150 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Golli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golliThe 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, “Golli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.