Gouge
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: variant of Gooch, itself a variant of Goff
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡaʊdʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gouge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Lesotho it is the 56th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 117K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 149K
- LSLesotho≈1 in 15K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lesotho, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Gooch, itself a variant of Goff.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Gouge is read(measured from records)
Gouge is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English81%
variant of Gooch, itself a variant of Goff.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Senses relating to cutting tools.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.7%
gouge (groove)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gouge 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Gouge | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,837 | 1 in 117K | 2.8K | Gouge | 253 |
| FR France | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 75 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Gouge | 69 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Gouge | 42 |
| LS Lesotho | #56 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Gouge | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Gouge | 9 |
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; 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)
Gouge 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 fro, gouge (tool)
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)
- William Gougeb. 1575GBGouge, William, 1578-1653
- Auguste Gougeb. 1849FRFrench soldier
- Louis-Pierre Gougeb. 1857CACanadian photographer
- René Gougeb. 1869FRFrench politician (1869–1925)
- Arthur Gougeb. 1890GBBritish engineer
- Henry Gougeb. 1905FRFrench politician
- France Gougeb. 1949FRFrench painter (born 1949)
- Erick Gougéb. 1966FRFrench politician
- Edward GougeBritish artist
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 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,578 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 111 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 107 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 98 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 85 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 61 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Gouge mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Gooch, itself a variant of Goff. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Gouge?
- In the etymology graph, Gouger is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gouge?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaʊdʒ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gouge have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Gouge in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gouge.
- How common is the name Gouge?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,837 people named Gouge in 2010, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Gouge compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Gouge is the 56th most common surname of 5,753 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gougeThe 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, “Gouge” — the 56th most common surname in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.