Gurney
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Gournay-en-Brai, northern France, from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordinus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɝni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gurney is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Gournay-en-Brai, northern France, from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordinus.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Gurney 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.
habitational name from any of various places in France named Goumay, notably Goumay-en-Brai in Seine-Maritime.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A stretcher having wheeled legs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from Gournaien-Brai (Seine-Inférieure); first attested Hugo de Gurnai 1086 DB (Ess, So)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Goldsworthy Gurneyb. 1793GBsurgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder, gentleman scientist, inventor (1793–1875)
- John Henry Gurneyb. 1819GBEnglish banker, politician, and amateur ornithologist (1819–1890)
- Ivor Gurneyb. 1890GBBritish composer and poet
- John Chandler Gurneyb. 1896USAmerican politician (1896–1985)
- Henry Gurneyb. 1898GBBritish diplomat
- Eric Gurneyb. 1910CAartist
- Edward Gurneyb. 1914USAmerican politician (1914–1996)
- A. R. Gurneyb. 1930USAmerican playwright and novelist (1930–2017)
- Dan Gurneyb. 1931USAmerican racing driver, constructor and team owner
- James Gurneyb. 1958USAmerican writer and artist
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 29 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,442 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,149 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 24 | #40,536 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #82,602 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #66,839 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #62,543 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #151,300 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #48,061 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Gurney mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Gournay-en-Brai, northern France, from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordinus. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Gurney?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɝni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gurney have the most bearers?
- Gurney is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Gurney?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurneyThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Gurney”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.