Goergen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from a Low German form of the personal name Georg (see George)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɔɹɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goergen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 76th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 372K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 34Kas Görgen
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 54Kas Görgen
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 Goergen 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Luxembourg, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Görgen in DE Germany, TR Türkiye and Gorgen in SS South Sudan.
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)
patronymic from a Low German form of the personal name Georg (see George).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goergen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Goergen | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Görgen | 82 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Görgen | 26 |
| US United States | — | 893 | 1 in 372K | 926 | Goergen | 207 |
| BR Brazil | — | 663as Gorgen | 1 in 319K | 663 | — | 2 |
| LU Luxembourg | #76 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 877 | Goergen | 28 |
| SS South Sudan | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Gorgen | 1 |
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; the dfa-band-3 register; Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Willy Goergenb. 1867LU(1867-1942)
- Max Goergenb. 1893LU(1893-1978)
- Sylvia Marie Stoesserb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican chemist
- Edmond Goergenb. 1914LULuxembourgian painter and draftsman (1914-2000)
- Fritz Goergenb. 1941DEGerman politician and opinion journalist
- Jeanpaul Goergenb. 1951LUfilm scholar
- Marc Goergenb. 1968GBLuxembourg economist
- Frank Goergenb. 1968LULuxembourgish association football player
- Roby Goergenb. 1969LULuxembourgian handball player
- Marc Goergenb. 1985LULuxembourgish politician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 926 | #27,561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 893 | #27,110 |
| LU Luxembourg | Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 877 | #51 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 860 | #26,642 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 568 | #15,184 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Goergen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from a Low German form of the personal name Georg (see George). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goergen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɔɹɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goergen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Goergen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goergen.
- How common is the name Goergen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 893 people named Goergen in 2010, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
- How common is Goergen compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Goergen is the 76th most common surname of 1,851 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/goergenThe 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, “Goergen” — the 76th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.