Güte

surname · Latin script

Meaning: kindness, clemency

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Güte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 996K(measured from records)
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 118K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 361K

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 Güte 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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈860 people, est.

Sources
110 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gute in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom 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)

kindness, clemency

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Güte 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.

Where Güte is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈860 est.≈1 in 118K—Gute1
US United States3341 in 996K355Gute110
DE Germany≈220 est.≈1 in 361KlistedGute47
BR Brazil149as Guete1 in 1.4M149——
GB United Kingdom≈39 est.≈1 in 1.7MlistedGute11
CA Canada≈32 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Gute10
AT Austria≈11 est.≈1 in 830K—Gute4

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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Güte is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Colombia, Spain

    Also written Gute, Gutë

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gute

  • Turkish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gute

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Güte under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Güte mean, and where does it come from?
kindness, clemency Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Güte have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 860 people named Güte in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gute.
How common is the name Güte?
In the United States, the national register counted 334 people named Güte in 2010, about 1 in 996 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%BCte

The 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, “Güte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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