Gural
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gural is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * From Polish Gural, a spelling variant of Góral, from Proto-Slavic *goraľь (“mountain dweller”).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 137K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 603K
- ARArgentina1 in 133K
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
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 133K (inferred from the name graph)
≈800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- PolishGural(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*goraľь“mountain dweller”(measured from records)
- UkrainianГуральHuralʹ(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*goraľь(measured from records)
- TurkishGüral(measured from records)
* From Polish Gural, a spelling variant of Góral, from Proto-Slavic *goraľь (“mountain dweller”). * Alternative transliteration of Ukrainian Гураль (Huralʹ), which is likely also from Proto-Slavic *goraľь. * From Turkish Güral.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gural 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 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Gural | 20 |
| US United States | 552 | 1 in 603K | 552 | Gural | 150 |
| AR Argentina | 343 | 1 in 133K | 343 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 134 | 1 in 1.6M | 134 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 470K | — | Gural | 1 |
| PL Poland | 127 | 1 in 301K | 69 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Gural | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Gural | 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roman Guralb. 1979UAUkrainian malacologist
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 20 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 552 | #39,773 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 513 | #44,979 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 482 | #42,363 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 343 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 134 | #50,632 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 69 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 69 | #39,301 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 58 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 58 | #45,284 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- 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 Gural mean, and where does it come from?
- * From Polish Gural, a spelling variant of Góral, from Proto-Slavic *goraľь (“mountain dweller”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Gural have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 798 people named Gural in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gural.
- Where is Gural most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gural is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 133 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gural?
- In the United States, the national register counted 552 people named Gural in 2010, about 1 in 603 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, “Gural”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.