Goble

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Americanized spelling of German Gobel (see Goebel)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɡoʊbəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Goble is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 37K(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 45K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 45K

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.

United States (measured from records)

9,022 people, 2010

Sources
343 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

New Zealand, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Americanized spelling of German Gobel (see Goebel).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Goble 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 Goble is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9,0221 in 37K9KGoble343
GB United Kingdom≈1,500 est.≈1 in 45K—Goble127
ID Indonesia≈1,400 est.≈1 in 188K—Goble4
EG Egypt≈870 est.≈1 in 119K—Goble2
CA Canada≈840 est.≈1 in 45K—Goble97
NZ New Zealand≈230 est.≈1 in 22K—Goble44
SG Singapore≈130 est.≈1 in 47K—Goble2

9,022 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. 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)

Goble is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Goblé

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Göble

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Burkina Faso, United Kingdom

    Also written Goblé

42 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)

Goble 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.

  • In English, variant of Godbold.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

1850190019502000Warwick Goble, b. 1862Stanley Goble, b. 1891Marion Tinling, b. 1904Dorothy Goble, b. 1910Paul Goble, b. 1933Phillip E. Goble, b. 1943Paul A. Goble, b. 1949George H. Goble, b. 1952Steve Goble, b. 1960Carole Goble, b. 1961

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Goble,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Goble
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109K#3,947
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020008.6K#3,793
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020208.4K#4,085
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • 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
  • 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

What does the name Goble mean, and where does it come from?
Americanized spelling of German Gobel (see Goebel). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Goble?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡoʊbəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Goble have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Goble, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goble.
How common is the name Goble?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,022 people named Goble in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.

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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, “Goble”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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