Góth

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Góth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aes.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 37K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 55K
  • CZCzechia1 in 228K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

677 people, 2010

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Góth: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Góth
  1. Late Latingothicus“Gothic“Gothic, barbaric”(measured from records)
  2. Ancient GreekΓοτθικόςGotthikós(measured from records)
  3. Ancient GreekΓότθοιGótthoi“Goths”(measured from records)

From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Góth counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Góth is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6771 in 491K716—2
SE Sweden1841 in 55K184——
DK Denmark1571 in 37K157——
CZ Czechia471 in 228K47——
BR Brazil471 in 4.5M47——
HU Hungary≈39 est.≈1 in 254K—Góth18

677 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Slovak surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Göth, Gőth, Goth

  • German surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Sweden, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Arabic

    Also written Goeth, Göth, Goth, Göeth, Goëth

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Goth, Göth

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Goth

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Goth

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

186018801900Sándor Góth, b. 1869Móric Góth, b. 1873Ada Góth, b. 1877Sárika Goth, b. 1900

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(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Góth mean, and where does it come from?
From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aes… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
In which country does Góth have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 677 people named Góth, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Góth most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Góth is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Góth?
In the United States, the national register counted 677 people named Góth in 2010, about 1 in 491 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Góth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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