Gouger
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Someone who gouges
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡaʊdʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gouger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 761K(measured from records)
- SOSomalia≈1 in 45K
- CACanada≈1 in 299K
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)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
437 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to work (a material) with a gouge
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gouger is read(measured from records)
Gouger 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.
- English80%
Someone who gouges.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.7%
to work (a material) with a gouge
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Gouger 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 437 | 1 in 761K | 490 | Gouger | 163 |
| SO Somalia | #960 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Gouger | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Gouger | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 675K | — | Gouger | 13 |
| FR France | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 900K | 13 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 725K | — | Gouger | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 451K | — | Gouger | 1 |
437 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; 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)
Gouger 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.
Altered spelling of German Gauger.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Robert Gougerb. 1802FRAnglo-Australian politician
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 490 | #41,793 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 465 | #48,977 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 437 | #48,347 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 4 | — |
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
- Where does the name Gouger come from?
- to work (a material) with a gouge Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gouger?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaʊdʒə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gouger mean?
- In English, Someone who gouges.
- What are other forms of the name Gouger?
- In the etymology graph, Gouge is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gouger have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 437 people named Gouger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gouger.
- How common is the name Gouger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 437 people named Gouger in 2010, about 1 in 761 thousand residents.
- How common is Gouger compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Gouger is the 960th most common surname of 1,614 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gougerThe 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, “Gouger” — the 960th most common surname in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.