The Godat surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 270 people carried this name — #72,105 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,111,100 people counted. That is up 8% from 250 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
179 people named Godat live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Jura.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 93 people named Godat.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Aisne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Godat,
with a public archive behind them.
-
Annamarie Godat 1943–
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Godat.
- Gobbo 227 · U.S. census
- Gobel 1,741 · U.S. census
- Gobert 1,827 · U.S. census
- Gobin 1,765 · U.S. census
- Godar 460 · U.S. census
- Godard 987 · U.S. census
- Goddard 15,599 · U.S. census
- Gode 265 · U.S. census
- Godec 221 · U.S. census
- Godel 246 · U.S. census
- Godfroy 264 · U.S. census
- Godier 116 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Godat is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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