Göran

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Göran (Jöran) är en svensk form av → Örjan

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Göran is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Benin it is the 95th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 139(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 187
  • SISlovenia1 in 556

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 Göran 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.

Sweden (measured from records)

73,532 people

Sources
203 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 139 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Goran in SE Sweden and Goeran in BJ Benin.

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)

recorded in Swedish

Göran (Jöran) är en svensk form av → Örjan. Namnet Jöran var populärt på 1500-talet men ersattes senare ofta av → Georg även om Jöran levde kvar som namn i bl.a. Dalarna. Den yngre stavningen Göran, belagd sedan tidigt 1700-tal, beror på anslutning till Georg. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 23 april (i sistnämnda även Jöran).

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

How Göran is read(measured from records)

Göran is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Swedish84%

    Göran (Jöran) är en svensk form av → Örjan. Namnet Jöran var populärt på 1500-talet men ersattes senare ofta av → Georg även om Jöran levde kvar som namn i bl.a. Dalarna. Den yngre stavningen Göran, belagd sedan tidigt 1700-tal, beror på anslutning till Georg. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 23 april (i sistnämnda även Jöran).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • German6.7%

    ['jce:ran]: männl.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Göran 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 Göran is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#70173,5321 in 13974KGoran68
HR Croatia—22,6171 in 18723K—6
BJ Benin#95≈3,900 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Goeran4
SI Slovenia—3,7831 in 5563.8K—31
FI Finland—2,8231 in 2K5.5KGöran9

73,532 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling göran. 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Göran is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Goran, Gõran, G̈̈̈̈̈öran, Go͏̈ran

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Serbia

    Also written Goran, Gorán, Góran, Gorañ

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Sweden, Serbia

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Goran, Goràn, Görän, Gorän

  • Croatian given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Goran, Горан, 고란, Gorran, Gorän

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Göran is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Swedish form of GEORGE . The - n suggests derivation from a Latinate elaboration Georgianus (based on pairs such as Julius and Julianus ), rather than directly from Georgius . Variants: Jöran, Örjan .

    as a word

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)

19201940196019802000Göran Graffman, b. 1931Göran Therborn, b. 1941Lars Norén, b. 1944Göran Stangertz, b. 1944Benny Andersson, b. 1946Göran Persson, b. 1949Göran Ragnerstam, b. 1957Pelle Lindbergh, b. 1959Alexander Stubb, b. 1968Nils van der Poel, b. 1996

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 15 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Göran
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—74K#47
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200429K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200329K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200029K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200129K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)199929K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200229K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200529K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200629K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200728K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200828K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200928K—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

In which country does Göran have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 74 thousand people named Göran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goran.
Where is Göran most common?
Göran is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 139 people carrying it.
What does the name Göran mean?
Recorded meaning: Göran (Jöran) är en svensk form av → Örjan.
Is Göran a male or female name?
Göran is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Göran?
In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Georges are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Göran?
In Sweden, the national register counted 73,532 people named Göran, about 1 in 139 residents.
How common is Göran compared with other names?
In Sweden, Göran is the 701st most common given name of 45,482 given names 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, “Göran” — the 701st most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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