The Gut surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 654 people carried this name — #34,574 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 454,500 people counted. That is up 14% from 575 in 2000.
In Poland’s population register
5,845 people named Gut have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 6,387 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 Lesser Poland.
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
3,067 people named Gut live in Switzerland.
They live in 25 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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 113 people named Gut live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Santa Fe.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 85 people named Gut.
27 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Paris.
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 the Nordic population registers
66 people named Gut is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Gut,
with a public archive behind them.
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Walter Gut 1885–1961 · psychiatrist
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Caspar Dominik Gut 1710–1772
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Veronika Gut 1757–1829
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Jean Gut 1843–1880 · photographer
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Jenny Gut 1860–1942
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Hermine Gut 1869–1942
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gut.
- Gurtler 379 · U.S. census
- Gurtner 250 · U.S. census
- Gusse 167 · U.S. census
- Gustave 1,124 · U.S. census
- Gustin 4,832 · U.S. census
- Guston 112 · U.S. census
- Gutfreund 170 · U.S. census
- Guth 3,453 · U.S. census
- Guthmann 190 · U.S. census
- Gutierres 3,090 · U.S. census
- Gutierrez 293,218 · U.S. census
- Gutknecht 1,050 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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