Gòó
surname · Latin script
Gòó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 15Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 41Kfew records
- PAPanama≈1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Goo in US United States, MY Malaysia, AU Australia and 3 more.
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)American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gòó is found
(measured from records)Gòó 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Goo | 44 |
| US United States | 1,299 | 1 in 256K | 1.3K | Goo | 242 |
| SG Singapore | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Goo | 41 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 335K | — | Goo | 38 |
| PH Philippines | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Goo | 18 |
| AU Australia | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Goo | 43 |
| PA Panama | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 1 | — | 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 2000; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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 Gòó mean, and where does it come from?
- American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gòó?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Gòó in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goo. After it come United States, Singapore, Canada and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gòó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,299 people named Gòó in 2010, about 1 in 256 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B2%C3%B3The 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, “Gòó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.