Goii

given name · Latin script

Meaning: nickname for a silly person, from Middle English golle ‘unfledged bird’

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

Goii is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Thailand.

rarermore common
  • THThailand
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Thailand (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
3 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

nickname for a silly person, from Middle English golle ‘unfledged bird’. There is evidence of a female personal name Golia and it is possible that this also may have given rise to the surname.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Goii is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, unflattering nickname from dialect goll ‘bullfinch’, in the sense ‘simpleton’; or perhaps a variant of Gollmann (see Goleman 2).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Dictionary of American 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

Where does the name Goii come from?
nickname for a silly person, from Middle English golle ‘unfledged bird’. There is evidence of a female personal name Golia and it is possible that this also may have given rise to the surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Goii mean?
Recorded meaning: nickname for a silly person, from Middle English golle ‘unfledged bird’.
Is Goii a male or female name?
Goii is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Goii have the most bearers?
Goii is most frequently recorded in Thailand.

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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, “Goii”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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