Gounod

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Charles Francois, French composer

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gounod is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland
  • FRFrance
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Charles Francois, French composer

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gounod 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 Croatian, francuski skladatelj, neoklasicist ( opere Faust , Romeo i Julija , crkvena djela, solo pjesma Ave Maria )

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

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).

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gounod mean, and where does it come from?
Charles Francois, French composer Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
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Gounod is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gounod”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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