Goetze
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Goetze is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Goetz.
- USUnited States1 in 421K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 26K
- JOJordan≈1 in 171K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Goetz.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goetze 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | — | 3 |
| US United States | 791 | 1 in 421K | 815 | Goetze | 177 |
| EG Egypt | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 360K | — | Goetze | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 258 | 1 in 821K | 258 | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 470K | — | Goetze | 10 |
| AU Australia | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Goetze | 42 |
| JO Jordan | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Goetze | 1 |
| BE Belgium | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 335K | — | Goetze | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Goetze | 3 |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the dfa-band-6 register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Peter Otto Goetzeb. 1793RUBaltic German historian (1793-1880)
- Otto Goetzeb. 1832DEGerman architect (1832–1894)
- Emil Götzeb. 1856DEnot in their usual nameGerman opera singer (tenor) (1856–1901)
- Sigismund Goetzeb. 1866GBEnglish painter and art patron (1866-1939)
- Otto Goetzeb. 1868DEGerman painter, graphic artist, 1868-1931
- Walter Wilhelm Goetzeb. 1883DEGerman composer (1883-1961)
- Albrecht Goetzeb. 1897DEAmerican historian (1897–1971)
- Ursula Goetzeb. 1916DEresistance fighter against the national socialism (1916–1943)
- Helga Goetzeb. 1922DEGerman artist and writer (1922–2008)
- Volker Goetzeb. 1972DEGerman musician
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 815 | #30,637 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 791 | #29,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 769 | #29,040 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 258 | #29,873 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Goetze mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Goetz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Goetze have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Goetze in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Goetze?
- In the United States, the national register counted 791 people named Goetze in 2010, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goetzeThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Goetze”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.