Gutting
surname · Latin script
Meaning: of uncertain origin. Probably from a Germanic personal name formed with god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡʌtɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gutting is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 687K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 140K
- GHGhana≈1 in 175K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
≈570 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
of uncertain origin. Probably from a Germanic personal name formed with god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gutting 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Gutting | 66 |
| US United States | 484 | 1 in 687K | 504 | Gutting | 167 |
| GH Ghana | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Gutting | 1 |
| EG Egypt | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 688K | — | Gutting | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Gutting | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Gutting | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 436K | — | Gutting | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)
Gutting is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Perhaps an altered spelling of English Cutting.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, present participle and gerund of gut
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)
- Ernst Guttingb. 1919DECatholic bishop (1919–2013)
- Gary Guttingb. 1942USAmerican philosopher
- Olav Guttingb. 1970DEGerman politician
- Tobias Guttingb. 1982DEresearcher
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 504 | #40,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 486 | #47,112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 484 | #44,423 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gutting mean, and where does it come from?
- of uncertain origin. Probably from a Germanic personal name formed with god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gutting?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡʌtɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gutting have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 571 people named Gutting in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gutting.
- How common is the name Gutting?
- In the United States, the national register counted 484 people named Gutting in 2010, about 1 in 687 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gutting?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guttingThe 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, “Gutting”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.