Gonder

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Possibly a respelling of German Gander

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

/ˈɡɑndɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gonder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Sint Maarten it is the 33rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 316K(measured from records)
  • SXSint Maarten≈1 in 931
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 126K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,053 people, 2010

Sources
214 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 931 (inferred from the name graph)

Sint Maarten, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Possibly a respelling of German Gander.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gonder 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 Gonder is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,0531 in 316K1.2KGonder214
DE Germany—≈300 est.≈1 in 267K—Gonder37
DZ Algeria—≈220 est.≈1 in 197K—Gonder1
CA Canada—≈170 est.≈1 in 217K—Gonder51
GB United Kingdom—≈140 est.≈1 in 461K—Gonder13
TN Tunisia—≈93 est.≈1 in 126K—Gonder2
SX Sint Maarten#33≈47 est.≈1 in 931—Gonder1

1,053 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gonder is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gönder

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written Gönder

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

    Also written Gönder

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Gönder

32 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gonder 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 enm, alternative form of gandre

    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)

  • Fernand Gonderb. 1883FRFrench athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault (1883-1969)
  • Jesse Gonderb. 1936USAmerican baseball player (1936–2004)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Gonder
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,382
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,957
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,244
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Gonder mean, and where does it come from?
Possibly a respelling of German Gander. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gonder?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑndɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gonder have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Gonder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gonder.
How common is the name Gonder?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,053 people named Gonder in 2010, about 1 in 316 thousand residents.
How common is Gonder compared with other names?
In Sint Maarten, Gonder is the 33rd most common surname of 335 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, “Gonder” — the 33rd most common surname in Sint Maarten. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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