The Gul surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 481 people carried this name — #42,437 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 555,600 people counted.
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In Poland’s population register
1,008 people named Gul have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 1,279 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Subcarpathian.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
569 people named Gul live in Switzerland.
They live in 17 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 491 people named Gul live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in East Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 101 people named Gul.
Most of them — 81 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Moselle.
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.
In print
Gul in American newspapers,
1833–1959.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 151,670 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Gul,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gerardus Gul 1847–1920 · bishop -
Sadia Gul 1998– · squash player -
Nihatcan Gül 1998– · gymnast
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 13 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gul.
- Guise 1,326 · U.S. census
- Guisti 305 · U.S. census
- Guitard 250 · U.S. census
- Guiter 114 · U.S. census
- Guiton 394 · U.S. census
- Guittard 106 · U.S. census
- Gulden 1,042 · U.S. census
- Guldner 271 · U.S. census
- Guler 342 · U.S. census
- Gulino 1,370 · U.S. census
- Gulli 464 · U.S. census
- Gullo 2,217 · U.S. census
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