Göllner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1177; morphologische Umbildung mit -ner und Umlautung, wohl zu Gold-/Geld-Namensbasis; demonstriert die -er/-ner-Variante (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Göllner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 60Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 263K
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 Göllner 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Göllner in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Goellner in US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa, AT Austria and 3 more.
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)1177; morphologische Umbildung mit -ner und Umlautung, wohl zu Gold-/Geld-Namensbasis; demonstriert die -er/-ner-Variante.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Göllner is found
(measured from records)Göllner 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 | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Göllner | 67 |
| US United States | — | 465as Goellner | 1 in 715K | 469 | Goellner | 150 |
| BR Brazil | — | 250as Goellner | 1 in 847K | 250 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Goellner | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Goellner | 11 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #530 | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Goellner | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 32 | 1 in 263K | 32 | Goellner | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Goellner | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 19 | 1 in 563K | 19 | — | — |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Göllner 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.
In German, Regionale Assimilationsform zu Göldner, mit ld>ll; Berufsname aus gold/golden. 1177 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Emil Göllnerb. 1859DEGerman farmer, landlord and politician (1859-1924)
- Günther Göllnerb. 1941DEGerman ski jumper
- Uwe Göllnerb. 1945DEGerman politician
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Göllner mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1177; morphologische Umbildung mit -ner und Umlautung, wohl zu Gold-/Geld-Namensbasis; demonstriert die -er/-ner-Variante.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Göllner?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Göllner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled göllner. After it come United States, Brazil, Austria and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Göllner?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 32 people named Göllner in 2024, about 1 in 263 thousand residents.
- How common is Göllner compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Göllner is the 530th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B6llnerThe 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, “Göllner” — the 530th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.