Gopaul
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡoʊpɔɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gopaul is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mauritius than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Variant of Gopal. This surname is typical of Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago.
- USUnited States1 in 494K(measured from records)
- MUMauritius≈1 in 667
- GYGuyana1 in 1.3K
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.
- Mauritius (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 667 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Gopal. This surname is typical of Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gopaul 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MU Mauritius | #24 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 667 | — | Gopaul | 35 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Gopaul | 39 |
| US United States | — | 674 | 1 in 494K | 704 | Gopaul | 181 |
| GY Guyana | #187 | 591 | 1 in 1.3K | 591 | Gopaul | 4 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #849 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Gopaul | 26 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 6 | 1 in 17K | 6 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 3 | 1 in 18K | 3 | — | 2 |
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 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Didier Gopaulb. 1983MUfootballer
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 704 | #34,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 674 | #33,772 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 591 | #190 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 486 | #42,056 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 6 | #256 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 3 | #179 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gopaul mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Gopal. This surname is typical of Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Gopaul?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊpɔɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gopaul have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Gopaul in Mauritius, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gopaul.
- How common is the name Gopaul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 674 people named Gopaul in 2010, about 1 in 494 thousand residents.
- How common is Gopaul compared with other names?
- In Mauritius, Gopaul is the 24th most common surname of 1,496 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gopaulThe 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, “Gopaul” — the 24th most common surname in Mauritius. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.