Gutfreund
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Wohl Echo-Name nach der Anrede 'gut Freund'; 79 Belege
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Gutfreund is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 419K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
- USUnited States1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gutfreund itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 419K (inferred from the name graph)
193 named גוטפרוינד, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled גוטפרוינד in IL Israel, PL Poland, BE Belgium.
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)Wohl Echo-Name nach der Anrede 'gut Freund'; 79 Belege.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gutfreund 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 193as גוטפרוינד | 1 in 45K | 193 | גוטפרוינד | 16 |
| US United States | 170 | 1 in 2M | 173 | Gutfreund | 22 |
| BE Belgium | 28 | 1 in 419K | 28 | גוטפרוינד | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 5 | גוטפרוינד | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
193 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Sándor Góthb. 1869HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actor, director (1869-1946)
- Otto Gutfreundb. 1889CZCzech sculptor (1889–1927)
- Eliška Eisenmannováb. 1903not in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1903)
- Herbert Gutfreundb. 1921GBBritish biochemist (1921–2021)
- John Gutfreundb. 1929USAmerican banker
- Yossef Gutfreundb. 1931ILMunich Massacre victim (1931-1972)
- Hanoch Gutfreundb. 1935ILtheoretical physicist
- Nicholas David Gutfreundb. 1961GBEnglish cabinetmaker, born 1961
- Amir Gutfreundb. 1963ILIsraeli writer (1963-2015)
- Sergio Gutfreundbotanist
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 173 | #108,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 170 | #105,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 144 | #112,967 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 28 | #38,909 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #197,899 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #141,775 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3 | #23,548 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #335,251 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Gutfreund mean?
- Recorded meaning: Wohl Echo-Name nach der Anrede 'gut Freund'; 79 Belege.
- In which country does Gutfreund have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 193 people named גוטפרוינד, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gutfreund most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gutfreund is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 419 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gutfreund?
- In the United States, the national register counted 170 people named Gutfreund in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gutfreundThe 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, “Gutfreund”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.