Gourde

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes

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

/ɡʊɹd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gourde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
  • DMDominica1 in 74K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

205 people, 2010

Sources
100 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gourde is read(measured from records)

Gourde 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.

  • English51%

    The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French43%

    altération du nom basque Goutx, de gutxi « petit ».

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Gourde 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.

Where Gourde is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2051 in 1.6M205Gourde100
DM Dominica11 in 74K1——
GB United Kingdom———Gourde16
CA Canada———Gourde36
AU Australia———Gourde3
CN China———Gourde1

205 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; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gourde is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gourdé

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gourde is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In nrm, feminine singular of gourd (“numb”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, A plant of the family Cucurbitaceae; a gourd or similar plant.

    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)

1940196019802000Gaston Gourde, b. 1950Jacques Gourde, b. 1964Yanni Gourde, b. 1991

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)

FormalDear Gourde,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Gourde
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010205#90,113
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020184#103,857
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000166#100,663
DM DominicaDominica — Revised List of Electors May 202520251#226
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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 Gourde mean, and where does it come from?
The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Gourde?
A machine transcription gives /ɡʊɹd/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Gourde?
In the etymology graph, Gourd is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Gourde have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 205 people named Gourde, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gourde.
Where is Gourde most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gourde is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gourde?
In the United States, the national register counted 205 people named Gourde in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Gourde”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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