GoRo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡoɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
GoRo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 27K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 6.3K
- KEKenya≈1 in 58K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,709 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
GoRo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,709 | 1 in 27K | 1.7K | GoRo | 36 |
| KE Kenya | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | GoRo | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 540 | 1 in 6.3K | 540 | GoRo | 15 |
| PH Philippines | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 399K | — | GoRo | 5 |
| US United States | 200 | 1 in 1.7M | 264 | GoRo | 45 |
| IT Italy | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 329K | 1 | GoRo | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 42 | 1 in 243K | 42 | — | 3 |
1,709 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national), counting the spelling goro. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
GoRo is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, a general name for defensive walls and fences
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In rmw, gadjo who has intermarried with a Romani and adopted their lifestyle, sometimes applied to half-breeds
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, unfertilized (egg) that has been brooded by the hen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of gorar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nlg, the back country, forest-covered interior hills
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Albanian, Muslim (as addressed by Orthodox Christians)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Fritz Gorob. 1901USAmerican photographer (1901–1986)
- Évelyne Goro AtuFRFrench politician
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 35 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.7K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 540 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 264 | #78,145 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 200 | #91,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 129 | #123,314 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 42 | #14,416 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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
- How do you pronounce GoRo?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does GoRo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named GoRo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled GoRo.
- Where is GoRo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, GoRo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 6.3 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name GoRo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,709 people named GoRo, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about GoRo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goroThe 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, “GoRo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.