Gore
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Either from a place-name meaning 'triangular piece of land', or from a nickname meaning 'sow'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 6.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 10K
- USUnited States1 in 13K
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)
- Sources
- 452 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
25,648 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Either from a place-name meaning 'triangular piece of land', or from a nickname meaning 'sow'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gore 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 25,648 | 1 in 13K | 26K | Gore | 452 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 1.9K | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Gore | 204 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Gore | 25 |
| IN India | — | 2,272 | 1 in 584K | 2.3K | Gore | 110 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 10 | — | 6 |
| SG Singapore | #491 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Gore | 16 |
| IE Ireland | #955 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Gore | 47 |
25,648 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gore is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dweller by a triangular piece of land; first attested Ralph de la Gare 1181 P (K)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, habitational name from any of various places, for example in Kent and Wiltshire, named Gore, from Old English gara ‘triangular piece of land’ (a derivative of gar ‘spear’, with reference to the triangular shape of a spearhead).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, nickname for a gluttonous and idle individual, from Old French gore ‘sow’ (of allegedly imitative origin, reflecting the grunting of the animal).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Albert, Jr., US vice-president; pers.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Albert Arnold Gore Sr.b. 1907USAmerican politician from Tennessee (1907–1998)
- Lesley Goreb. 1946USAmerican singer (1946–2015)
- Al Goreb. 1948USVice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)
- Tipper Goreb. 1948USSecond Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001
- Michael Goreb. 1951USAmerican composer
- Martin Goreb. 1961GBEnglish songwriter, musician, singer, record producer, remixer, and DJ; founding member of Depeche Mode
- Kristin Goreb. 1977USAmerican writer; daughter of Al and Tipper Gore
- Frank Goreb. 1983USAmerican football player (born 1983)
- David Goreb. 1996USAmerican actor
- Jack Goreb. 2005USAmerican actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 26K | #1,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 24K | #1,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 24K | #1,452 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.3K | #2,852 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 1.9K | #288 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 844 | #1,003 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 10 | #26 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Gore mean, and where does it come from?
- Either from a place-name meaning 'triangular piece of land', or from a nickname meaning 'sow'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Gore?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gore have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Gore, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gore.
- How common is the name Gore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,648 people named Gore in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Gore compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Gore is the 491st most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Gore” — the 491st most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.