Gutkin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Gutkind, a pet name meaning ‘good child’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gutkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 860K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 701Kas Гуткин
- ILIsrael≈1 in 87K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gutkin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
387 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Гуткин in RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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 Gutkind, a pet name meaning ‘good child’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gutkin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 387 | 1 in 860K | 387 | Gutkin | 156 |
| RU Russia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 701K | — | Гуткин | 83 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 351K | — | Gutkin | 10 |
| IL Israel | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Gutkin | 21 |
| CA Canada | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Gutkin | 33 |
| BY Belarus | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Гуткин | 6 |
| BE Belgium | 34 | 1 in 345K | 34 | Gutkin | 18 |
| DK Denmark | 18 | 1 in 326K | 18 | Gutkin | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 1 |
387 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Gutkin 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.
metronymic from a pet form of the female personal name Gute.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Heinrich Gutkinb. 1879EEEstonian businessman and politician (1879-1941)
- Leonid Gutkinb. 1938UASoviet association football player (born 1938)
- Boris Gutkinb. 1945chess player
- Vera Gutkinab. 1953ILnot in their usual nameRussian-Israeli painter, poet and author
- Lisa Gutkinb. 1959USAmerican musician
- Ulrik Gutkinscreenwriter
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 387 | #53,419 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 351 | #61,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 335 | #56,979 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 34 | #33,989 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 18 | #25,748 |
| 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 Gutkin mean, and where does it come from?
- from Gutkind, a pet name meaning ‘good child’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gutkin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 387 people named Gutkin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gutkin.
- How common is the name Gutkin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 387 people named Gutkin in 2010, about 1 in 860 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gutkinThe 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, “Gutkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.