Goth
loc · Latin script
Meaning: tribal name from medieval German Gote ‘Goth’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Goth is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 37K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 53K
- SESweden1 in 55K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Göth in DE Germany, SE Sweden, AT Austria and Goeth in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
tribal name from medieval German Gote ‘Goth’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goth 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Göth | 92 |
| US United States | 677 | 1 in 491K | 716 | Goeth | 200 |
| FR France | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 331K | 20 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 184 | 1 in 55K | 184 | Göth | 10 |
| IT Italy | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 359K | listed | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 157 | 1 in 37K | 157 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Göth | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | 47 | 1 in 228K | 47 | — | 1 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Goth 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 German, Patro- oder Metronym aus einstämmiger Kurzform mit Stammvokal o; möglich auch Anschluss an Übernamen. 668 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In English, A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, third-person singular present indicative of gon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, a Goth (member of East Germanic people)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, goth (member of goth subculture)
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)
- Sándor Góthb. 1869HUHungarian actor, director (1869-1946)
- Móric Góthb. 1873HU(1873–1944)
- Ada Góthb. 1877ATHungarian-Dutch-Austrian painter
- Marie Gothb. 1887USAmerican painter (1887–1975)
- Jan Gothb. 1889CZCzech illustrator and painter (1889-1965)
- Sárika Gothb. 1900NLartist (1900-1992)
- Toni Gothb. 1932DEGerman musician
- Willis Goth Regierb. 1948USAmerican literary scholar (1948-)
- Ursula-Georgine Småland Gothb. 1961NOresearcher
- Mia Gothb. 1993GBBritish actress (born 1993)
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 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 716 | #34,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 677 | #33,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 664 | #32,609 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 157 | #3,353 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #12,988 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 47 | #30,298 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 47 | #10,896 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 21 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Goth mean, and where does it come from?
- tribal name from medieval German Gote ‘Goth’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Goth have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Goth in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled göth.
- Where is Goth most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Goth is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Goth?
- In the United States, the national register counted 677 people named Goth in 2010, about 1 in 491 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gothThe 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, “Goth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.