Gutta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Tamil usurper who with Sena killed King Sūratissa and reigned at Anurādhapura for twenty-two years (177-155 B.C.); killed by Asela
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡʌtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gutta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 824K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1M
- AOAngola≈1 in 130K
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 Gutta 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
1,609 people
Highest-authority source
Angola, 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 Gutti in PE Peru.
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)
A Tamil usurper who with Sena killed King Sūratissa and reigned at Anurādhapura for twenty-two years (177-155 B.C.); killed by Asela. Mhv. xxi. 10 f.; Dpv. xviff. 47 f.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gutta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,609 | 1 in 824K | 1.6K | Gutta | 85 |
| US United States | 325 | 1 in 1M | 545 | Gutta | 154 |
| PE Peru | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Gutti | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 220K | — | Gutta | 7 |
| UG Uganda | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 170K | 1 | — | — |
| AO Angola | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 1 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 73as Gutte | 1 in 237K | 73 | Gutta | 4 |
1,609 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Gutta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, pet form of Guto; cited as an -o/-a variant.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In pi, past participle of gopeti (“to guard”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite plural of gutt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, a drop (of fluid)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jwala Guttab. 1983INIndian badminton player
- Jyotsna GuttaUSresearcher
- Pia GuttaDEGerman association football player
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 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.1K | #1,821 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #3,749 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 545 | #42,786 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 325 | #61,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 173 | #97,384 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Gutta come from?
- A Tamil usurper who with Sena killed King Sūratissa and reigned at Anurādhapura for twenty-two years (177-155 B.C.); killed by Asela. Mhv. xxi. 10 f.; Dpv. xviff. 47 f. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- How do you pronounce Gutta?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡʌtə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Gutta mean?
- Recorded meaning: A Tamil usurper who with Sena killed King Sūratissa and reigned at Anurādhapura for twenty-two years (177-155 B.C.); killed by Asela.
- In which country does Gutta have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Gutta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gutta.
- How common is the name Gutta?
- In India, the national register counted 1,609 people named Gutta, about 1 in 824 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guttaThe 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, “Gutta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.