Goï

surname · Latin script

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

Goï is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘high place’, ‘height, elevation’, ‘high’.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 118K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 181K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 494K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,169 people

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

‘high place’, ‘height, elevation’, ‘high’

Sources 1

  • Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Goï 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 Goï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,1691 in 181K1.2K——
AR Argentina3851 in 118K385——
IN India3281 in 4M328——
CH Switzerland171 in 494K17—1
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15—5
PL Poland121 in 3.2M12——
BE Belgium81 in 1.5M8—2

1,169 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).

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

Goï is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Goi

  • English surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch, Spanish

    Also written Goei, Goi, Gối, Gói, Gọi

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 Goï 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 Goï mean, and where does it come from?
‘high place’, ‘height, elevation’, ‘high’ Recorded by Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
In which country does Goï have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Goï, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Goï most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Goï is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 118 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Goï?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,169 people named Goï, about 1 in 181 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, “Goï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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