Goerres
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
Goerres is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 691K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 837K
- FRFrance≈1 in 22M
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 Goerres itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 691K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 named Gorres, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Goerres in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gorres in PH Philippines, US United States, HM Heard & McDonald Islands and 1 more and Görres in DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Goerres is found
(measured from records)Goerres 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Gorres | 29 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Görres | 65 |
| US United States | — | 180as Gorres | 1 in 1.8M | 226 | Gorres | 104 |
| BR Brazil | — | 86as Gorres | 1 in 2.5M | 86 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 25 | 1 in 691K | 25 | Goerres | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 805K | — | Goerres | 4 |
| BB Barbados | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Gorres | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #350 | — | — | — | Gorres | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Josy Goerresb. 1913LU(1913-1985)
- Jean-Paul Goerresb. 1949LULuxembourgish association football player
- Achim Goerresb. 1977DEresearcher
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Goerres?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Gorres in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, United States, Brazil and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Goerres most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Goerres is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 691 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Goerres?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 25 people named Goerres in 2007, about 1 in 691 thousand residents.
- How common is Goerres compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Goerres is the 350th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Goerres?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goerresThe 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, “Goerres” — the 350th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.