Gotou

surname · Latin script

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

Gotou is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan
  • CICôte d’Ivoire
  • MYMalaysia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Shōjirō Gotō, b. 1838Gotō Shinpei, b. 1857Fumio Gotō, b. 1884Hirohito Gotō, b. 1969Midori Gotō, b. 1971Kumiko Goto, b. 1974Hirooki Goto, b. 1979Mariko Gotō, b. 1982Maki Goto, b. 1985Yūki Gotō, b. 1986
  • Shōjirō Gotōb. 1838JPnot in their usual nameJapanese noble (1838-1897)
  • Gotō Shinpeib. 1857JPnot in their usual nameJapanese statesman (1857-1929)
  • Fumio Gotōb. 1884JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician (1884-1980)
  • Hirohito Gotōb. 1969JPnot in their usual nameJapanese writer
  • Midori Gotōb. 1971USnot in their usual nameJapanese American Violinist
  • Kumiko Gotob. 1974JPnot in their usual nameJapanese model, talent, actress
  • Hirooki Gotob. 1979JPnot in their usual nameJapanese professional wrestler
  • Mariko Gotōb. 1982JPnot in their usual nameJapanese musician
  • Maki Gotob. 1985JPnot in their usual nameJapanese female singer, talent and YouTuber (1986-)
  • Yūki Gotōb. 1986JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer and tarento

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

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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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, “Gotou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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