Goris
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a habitational name from Gorfs in Pontevedra province, Galicia
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Goris is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 4.2K
- NLNetherlands1 in 17K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
3,630 people, 2008
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
probably a habitational name from Gorfs in Pontevedra province, Galicia.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goris 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #495 | 3,630 | 1 in 3.2K | 3.6K | Goris | 75 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #265 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Goris | 32 |
| US United States | — | 1,727 | 1 in 193K | 1.7K | Goris | 230 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Goris | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,011 | 1 in 17K | 1K | Goris | 44 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Goris | 1 |
3,630 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Goris is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, tāds, kas grīļodamies, ļodzīdamies iet
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, melnais stārķis ("Ciconia nigra")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Gārnis (putns)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sliņķis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Albert Gorisb. 1874FRFrench pharmacologist (1874-1950)
- Jan Gorisb. 1890BEpolitician (1890-1976)
- Roelof Gorisb. 1898NLDutch anthropologist
- Marnix Gijsenb. 1899BEnot in their usual nameBelgian writer (1899–1984)
- René Gorisb. 1946BEBelgian athlete
- Gie Gorisb. 1955BEBelgian writer
- Eva Gorisb. 1956DEGerman journalist
- Esther Gorisb. 1963ARArgentine actress
- Rob Gorisb. 1982BEBelgian ice hockey player and cyclist (1982–2012)
- Parker Gorisb. 1995USAmerican actor
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 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.6K | #208 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 3.5K | #216 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,303 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,566 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1K | #1,698 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Goris mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a habitational name from Gorfs in Pontevedra province, Galicia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Goris have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Goris, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goris.
- Where is Goris most common?
- Goris is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Goris?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3,630 people named Goris in 2008, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Goris compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Goris is the 495th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gorisThe 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, “Goris” — the 495th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.