Goul
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of ghoul
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡuɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goul is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zambia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- ZMZambia≈1 in 14K
- DKDenmark1 in 40K
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.
- Zambia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete form of ghoul.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goul 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.
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Goul 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 yol, devil
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 235 | #85,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 232 | #76,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 226 | #83,226 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 148 | #3,627 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #49,562 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Goul mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of ghoul. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Goul?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡuɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goul have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Goul in Zambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goul.
- How common is the name Goul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Goul in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goulThe 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, “Goul”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.