Gyatso
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A unisex given name from Tibetan
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡjɑtsoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gyatso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
- CLChile≈1 in 2.3M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
131 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A unisex given name from Tibetan.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gyatso 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 | 131 | 1 in 2.5M | 177 | Gyatso | 14 |
| IN India | 34 | 1 in 39M | 34 | Gyatso | 13 |
| CL Chile | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 1 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 4 | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | 8 | — | 1 |
131 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Gyatso 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.
In English, Tenzin, Tibetan leader, the Dalai
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, männl. Vom. tibetischer Herkunft, ständiger Beiname des Dalai Lama (»Welt meer«, auf Menschen übertragen »von un- auslotbarer Tiefe in seiner Weisheit«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Jigme Gyatsob. 1972CNTibetan filmmaker
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 197 | #112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 177 | #107,024 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 135 | #1,052 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 131 | #129,825 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 48 | #334 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 34 | #56,873 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #16,602 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #71,723 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Gyatso mean, and where does it come from?
- A unisex given name from Tibetan. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gyatso?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡjɑtsoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gyatso have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 131 people named Gyatso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gyatso.
- Where is Gyatso most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gyatso is densest in Norway — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gyatso?
- In the United States, the national register counted 131 people named Gyatso in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 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/gyatsoThe 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, “Gyatso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.