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Surname Goethe (Goethe
, 歌德
, Гете
) , around the globe, is quite a rare cognomen. The cognomen Goethe is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare surname, Switzerland, and Germany, where it is a rare surname. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is commonest in the United States, Germany, and Ukraine. Much less frequently, Goethe is the forename as well as the last name.