GóRe

surname · Latin script

GóRe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-Euro.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 13K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 133K
  • NONorway1 in 228K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

25,648 people, 2010

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gore in US United States, IN India, BR Brazil and 1 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)

Derivation of GóRe: each step is the form the one above it came from.
GóRe
  1. Middle Englishgore“mud“mud, muck”(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishgor“dirt“dirt, dung, filth, muck”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*gurą“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Indo-European*gʷʰer-“hot; warm”(measured from records)

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).

Sources 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The African book of names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

GóRe 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.

Where GóRe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—25,6481 in 13K26KGore118
IN India—2,2721 in 584K2.3KGore24
BR Brazil—1081 in 2M108Gore18
ES Spain—871 in 575K87—12
PL Poland—481 in 798K25——
FI Finland—421 in 133K42—1
SE Sweden—381 in 268K38—1
CH Switzerland—251 in 336K25—3
NO Norway—241 in 228K24——
PA Panama#660———Gore10

25,648 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

GóRe is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Japanese

    Also written Gore, Göre, Goere, Goré, Góré

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists GóRe under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name GóRe mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-Euro… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The African book of names and 4 other sources.
In which country does GóRe have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named GóRe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gore.
Where is GóRe most common?
GóRe is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name GóRe?
In the United States, the national register counted 25,648 people named GóRe in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
How common is GóRe compared with other names?
In Panama, GóRe is the 660th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “GóRe” — the 660th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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