Goje

surname · Latin script

Meaning: (Ard II 254); Goja Gojea, frecv

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 5M
  • BEBelgium1 in 5.9M

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 Goje itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

76 people

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Goeje in NL Netherlands.

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)

(Ard II 254); Goja Gojea, frecv. (Mar).

Sources 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Goje 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 Goje is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India761 in 17M76Goje19
NL Netherlands≈24 est.≈1 in 726K—Goeje11
ES Spain101 in 5M10—1
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4——
BE Belgium21 in 5.9M2—1

76 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Goje is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Amharic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, Nigeria

    Also written ጎጄ, ጎጀ

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Spain, Romania

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Goxe

50 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)

Goje is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A fiddle-like stringed instrument with one or two strings, and a resonator made from a gourd or calabash, originating among the Hausa of West Africa.

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

  • In Albanian, indefinite dative/ablative singular of gojë

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

  • In Yoruba, goje, violin, fiddle

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

  • In bnt-pro, albinos

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

Formalआदरणीय श्री Goje जी,Respected Goje ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Goje जी,Hi Goje, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Goje
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—76#34,083
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—32#15,554
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—10#120,154
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#142,251

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Goje come from?
(Ard II 254); Goja Gojea, frecv. (Mar). Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
How do you pronounce Goje?
A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊdʒ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Goje mean?
Recorded meaning: (Ard II 254); Goja Gojea, frecv.
In which country does Goje have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 76 people named Goje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goje.
Where is Goje most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Goje is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.1 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Goje?
In India, the national register counted 76 people named Goje, about 1 in 17 million residents.

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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, “Goje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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