Gottesman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name, literally meaning ‘God’s man’, from modem German or Yiddish
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɑtsmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gottesman is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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)
ornamental name, literally meaning ‘God’s man’, from modem German or Yiddish.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gottesman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.5K | — |
| PL Poland | — | 12 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 10 | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 7 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 4 | — |
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 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Samuel Gottesmanb. 1884USHungarian-American merchant, financier and philanthropist (1884-1956)
- David Gottesmanb. 1926USAmerican businessman
- Ruth L. Gottesmanb. 1930USProfessor Emerita of the Department of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Irving Gottesmanb. 1930USAmerican psychiatric geneticist (1930–2016)
- Michael M. Gottesmanb. 1946USAmerican biochemist
- David Gottesmanb. 1948USAmerican politician
- Noam Gottesmanb. 1961USAmerican businessman
- Daniel Gottesmanb. 1970USAmerican physicist
- Ronen Gottesmanb. 1977ILIsraeli chemist
- Michael GottesmanUSAmerican lawyer
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 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,055 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #120,729 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 7 | #100,902 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 7 | #19,646 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #177,109 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #109,196 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gottesman mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name, literally meaning ‘God’s man’, from modem German or Yiddish. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gottesman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑtsmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gottesman have the most bearers?
- Gottesman is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Gottesman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gottesmanThe 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, “Gottesman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.