Ğö
surname · Latin script
Ğö is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Hokkien 吳／吴 (Gô͘, Ngô͘) or 伍 (Gó͘, Ngó͘).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- KRSouth Korea1 in 110as 고
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 389as Ko
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ğö itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 419 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
471,429 named 고, 2015
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ko in US United States, PH Philippines, HK Hong Kong and 1 more, 고 in KR South Korea, MO Macao and Go in BR Brazil.
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)From Hokkien 吳／吴 (Gô͘, Ngô͘) or 伍 (Gó͘, Ngó͘).
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 33 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ğö 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #22 | 471,429as 고 | 1 in 110 | 487K | 고 | 208 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Ko | 161 |
| KP North Korea | #45 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 12 | Ko | 36 |
| HK Hong Kong | #136 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 389 | — | Ko | 97 |
| US United States | — | 13,312as Ko | 1 in 25K | 14K | Ko | 419 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 320 | — | 고 | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 519 | 1 in 408K | 519 | Go | 3 |
471,429 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ğö mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hokkien 吳／吴 (Gô͘, Ngô͘) or 伍 (Gó͘, Ngó͘). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Ğö have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 471 thousand people named 고, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ğö?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 519 people named Ğö, about 1 in 408 thousand residents.
- How common is Ğö compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Ğö is the 22nd most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%9F%C3%B6The 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, “Ğö” — the 22nd most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.