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Guede

Guede. Attested in Spain, France, United States of America, borne by about 2,535 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

Güde

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

GædeGaedeGjedeGoedeGuddeGuedjGuedo

What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

Q127781683 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

It is also the name of a place

1 place drawn, the largest being GuédéGuédé — 5,600
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Guédé Senegal pop. 5,600

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 3 countries: Spain, France, United States of AmericaUnited States of America — 105 peopleFrance — 1,139 peopleSpain — 1,291 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the 3 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Spain

1,291 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

633 of 35,936 volumes held for Spain overlap the 1940s and 1970s — the decades Guede is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Guede. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records. See everything this atlas holds for Spain →

France

1,139 Borne — a state counted them — Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to
Attested here, and nothing that survives covers those years

Guede is attested in France in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Not one of the 1,513 volumes this atlas holds for France covers those years — worth knowing before an afternoon is spent on France's shelf rather than after.

United States of America

105 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census.

Whose archive to write to

78,312 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1920s, 1960s and 1990s — the decades Guede is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Guede. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect.

  • 1891–1900 55
  • 1901–1910 74
  • 1911–1920 65
  • 1921–1930 105
  • 1931–1940 118
  • 1941–1950 126
  • 1951–1960 125
  • 1961–1970 129
  • 1971–1980 105
  • 1981–1990 119
  • 1991–2000 118

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

France
United States of America

No record region is drawn yet for Spain — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about that country.

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