Gulas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gulas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a derivative of Gula or GcHy (see Golec).
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 121K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a derivative of Gula or GcHy (see Golec).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gulas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Gulas | 12 |
| US United States | — | 275 | 1 in 1.2M | 407 | Gulas | 146 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Gulas | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 810K | — | Gulas | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 495K | — | Gulas | 30 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Gulas | 10 |
| HR Croatia | — | 35 | 1 in 121K | 35 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Gulas | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | listed | — | 1 |
| AI Anguilla | #654 | — | — | — | Gulas | 1 |
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Gulas is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of gula
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, accusative plural of gula
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In syb, sweat
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Bonnie E. Gulas‐WroblewskiUSAmerican paleontologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 407 | #48,665 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 356 | #61,001 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 275 | #71,042 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gulas mean, and where does it come from?
- from a derivative of Gula or GcHy (see Golec). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gulas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 299 people named Gulas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gulas.
- Where is Gulas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gulas is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 121 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gulas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275 people named Gulas in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Gulas compared with other names?
- In Anguilla, Gulas is the 654th most common surname of 7,424 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gulasThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gulas” — the 654th most common surname in Anguilla. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.