Gugel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A type of hood with a liripipe (a trailing point), popularly worn in medieval Germany
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡuɡəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gugel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 70K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 476K
- BRBrazil1 in 148K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
1,434 people
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Middle High German gugel ‘cowl’, ‘hood (of a coat or jacket)’ (Latin cuculla), a metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoods or alternatively a nickname for someone who habitually wore one. In some cases the surname may have arisen from topographic names containing this element.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gugel is read(measured from records)
Gugel is one spelling over 3 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.
- English61%
A type of hood with a liripipe (a trailing point), popularly worn in medieval Germany.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German17%
from Middle High German gugel ‘cowl’, ‘hood (of a coat or jacket)’ (Latin cuculla), a metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoods or alternatively a nickname for someone who habitually wore one. In some cases the surname may have arisen from topographic names containing this element.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
alternative form of Kogel (“cowl”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Berufs-/Übername: zu mhd. gugel, mnd. kogel 'Kapuze/Kopfbedeckung'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Übername zu mhd. gugel 'Kapuze, Cowl/Hut'; 579 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- Portuguese13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gugel in Portuguese.
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)
Gugel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,434 | 1 in 148K | 1.4K | — | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 70K | listed | Gugel | 77 |
| US United States | 699 | 1 in 476K | 710 | Gugel | 185 |
| IT Italy | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Gugel | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 741K | — | Gugel | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 21 | 1 in 400K | 21 | Gugel | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Gugel | 1 |
1,434 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Gugel 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 Italian, forma popular e coloquial; redução de Gugelmo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Bastian Gugelb. 1500DEGerman stonemason (1500–1514)
- Eugen Gugelb. 1832DEGerman architect (1832–1905)
- Ana Gugelb. 1981ESSpanish television presenter
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,614 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 710 | #34,389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 699 | #32,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 696 | #31,464 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 21 | #35,283 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Gugel come from?
- from Middle High German gugel ‘cowl’, ‘hood (of a coat or jacket)’ (Latin cuculla), a metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoods or alternatively a nickname for someone who habitually wore one. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gugel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡuɡəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gugel mean?
- In English, A type of hood with a liripipe (a trailing point), popularly worn in medieval Germany.
- In which country does Gugel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Gugel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gugel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,434 people named Gugel, about 1 in 148 thousand 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, “Gugel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.