Gogo

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: An elasticated hair band

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɡəʊɡəʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gogo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ALAlbania≈1 in 6K
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 9.2K

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.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈17,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GogoLatin(measured from records)
გოგოGeorgian(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)

Nguni (South Africa): 'like grandfather'

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Gogo is read(measured from records)

Gogo is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Arabic55%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Gogo in Arabic.

  • English14%

    An elasticated hair band.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    lang., people, Africa

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Swahili12%

    log (piece of wood)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French5.4%

    dupe

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gogo 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 Gogo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#255≈17,000 est.≈1 in 6K—Gogo42
NG Nigeria—≈4,500 est.≈1 in 47KlistedGogo17
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈3,000 est.≈1 in 9.2K827——
KE Kenya—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 36K1—8
PH Philippines—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 87K—Gogo8
AL Albania—≈510 est.≈1 in 6K18——
LY Libya—≈270 est.≈1 in 25K—Gogo4
US United States—2441 in 1.4M330Gogo38
KW Kuwait—≈120 est.≈1 in 25K—Gogo10

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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners. 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)

Gogo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Nigeria, South Africa

    Languages: English, German, Afrikaans

    Also written Go-Go, Gogoe, Gogö, Gogò, Goegoe

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Côte d’Ivoire, United States

    Also written Gôgô, Gogô, Gogon, Gögö

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Argentina, Mexico, United States

    Also written Gogó, Go-Gó, Go-Go

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Tanzania

    Also written Ğoĝő, Gogō

  • Bulgarian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Гого

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gogo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Nguni (South Africa): 'like grandfather'

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • Like grandfather

    as a nameThe book of African names

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)

1920194019601980John Gogo, b. 1932Gogo, b. 1965David Gogo, b. 1969

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)

Formalالسيدة Gogo المحترمة،Dear Ms. Gogo, (English)
Informalمرحباً Gogo،Hi Gogo, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Gogo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—827#631
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020330#65,003
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010244#78,316
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000192#89,549
KE KenyaMzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners20221#450
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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

Where does the name Gogo come from?
Nguni (South Africa): 'like grandfather' Recorded by African Names.
How do you pronounce Gogo?
A machine transcription gives /ɡəʊɡəʊ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
What does the name Gogo mean?
In English, An elasticated hair band.
In which country does Gogo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Gogo in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gogo.
How common is the name Gogo?
In the United States, the national register counted 244 people named Gogo in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
How common is Gogo compared with other names?
In Egypt, Gogo is the 255th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gogo” — the 255th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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