Golon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from golony ‘shaven’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡoʊlən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Golon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 32K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 626K
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
1,209 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname from golony ‘shaven’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Golon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,209 | 1 in 32K | 622 | Golon | 55 |
| BR Brazil | 338 | 1 in 626K | 338 | — | — |
| US United States | 302 | 1 in 1.1M | 329 | Golon | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Golon | 11 |
| FR France | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 5 | — | 1 |
1,209 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)Golon 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 ang, plural preterite indicative of galan
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)- Anne Golonb. 1921FRFrench writer
- Nadia Golonb. 1928screenwriter
- Mirosław Golonb. 1964PLPolish historian
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 622 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 622 | #5,168 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 587 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 587 | #5,398 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 338 | #23,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 329 | #57,849 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 302 | #65,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 293 | #71,696 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Golon mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from golony ‘shaven’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Golon?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊlən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Golon have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Golon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled golon.
- Where is Golon most common?
- Golon is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Golon?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,209 people named Golon in 2026, about 1 in 32 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/golonThe 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, “Golon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.