Gonder

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gonder is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Sint Maarten it is the 33rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Possibly a respelling of German Gander.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 316K◐
  • SXSint Maarten1 in 896
  • TNTunisia1 in 160K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.2K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
191 ●

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 316K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Gönder in AT Austria.

Meaning & origin●

Possibly a respelling of German Gander.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gonder is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,0539.9K rec.1 in 316K1.2KGonder191
DE Germany—505481 rec.——Gonder36
GB United Kingdom—374378 rec.——Gonder10
CA Canada—311299 rec.——Gonder38
AU Australia—128129 rec.——Gonder10
TR Türkiye—10182 rec.——Gonder14
PL Poland—54△3 rec.1 in 709K54—1
IT Italy—5051 rec.——Gonder3
NL Netherlands—3636 rec.——Gonder5
AR Argentina—3433 rec.——Gonder12
BR Brazil—31△13 rec.1 in 6.8M31Gonder14
SX Sint Maarten#333181 rec.——Gonder1

Roughly 1.1K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 316K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English11K77%
  • German6345%
  • Spanish4463%
  • Polish4033%
  • 3052%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English10,73977%
German6345%
Spanish4463%
Polish4033%
3052%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gonder is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname407 records spelled Gonder3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Gönder, Gondar

  • a separate surname366 records spelled Gonder2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Ethiopia, Türkiye

    Also written Gönder

  • Hindi surname329 records spelled Gonder5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written Gönder

  • Arabic surname104 records spelled Gonder2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye

    Also written Gönder

  • Norwegian surname60 records spelled Gonder7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway

    Languages: Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Gönder, Gondar

31 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses●

Gonder 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 enm, alternative form of gandre

    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●

  • Fernand Gonderb. 1883FRFrench athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault (1883-1969)
  • Jesse Gonderb. 1936USAmerican baseball player (1936–2004)

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●

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Gonder
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,382
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,957
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,244
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202654—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—54#47,057
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202653—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—53#48,133
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—31#145,687
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—14#49,558
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20085#101,486
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1#65,213

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gonder?
We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Gonder (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Gonder have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Gonder in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gonder.
How common is Gonder compared with other names?
In Sint Maarten, Gonder is the 33rd most common surname of 300 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Gonder mean?
Recorded meaning: Possibly a respelling of German Gander.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Gonder” — the 33rd most common surname in Sint Maarten. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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