Gogu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gogu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Γώγος (Gógos), from Γεώργιος (Geórgios).
- INIndia1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 12K
- DKDenmark1 in 309K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Greek Γώγος (Gógos), from Γεώργιος (Geórgios).
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gogu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gogu | 5 |
| IN India | 892 | 1 in 1.5M | 892 | Gogu | 44 |
| ES Spain | 107 | 1 in 467K | 107 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Gogu | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Gogu | 8 |
| PL Poland | 32 | 1 in 1.2M | 18 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 19 | 1 in 309K | 19 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 10 | 1 in 557K | 10 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #2,464 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 892 | #6,013 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 107 | #26,352 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 107 | #26,168 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 19 | #24,884 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #95,043 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #109,844 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,413 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Gogu mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Greek Γώγος (Gógos), from Γεώργιος (Geórgios). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Gogu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Gogu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gogu.
- How common is the name Gogu?
- In India, the national register counted 892 people named Gogu, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gogu?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goguThe 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, “Gogu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.