Goku

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Rōmaji transcription of ごく

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Goku is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 489K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CLChile≈1 in 1.2M
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈140 people, est.

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 489K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Rōmaji transcription of ごく

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Goku 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 Goku is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil≈140 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Goku17
IT Italy≈130 est.≈1 in 489K—Goku3
US United States≈120 est.≈1 in 2.9M7Goku20
CO Colombia≈26 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Goku10
ES Spain≈23 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Goku11
CL Chile≈16 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Goku11

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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)

Goku is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, India, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gökü, Gokú, Goekue

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Gokû, Góku, Gökü

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gokú, Gokū

40 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Goku,Hi Goku, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Goku under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Goku a male or female name?
Goku 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.
What does the name Goku mean, and where does it come from?
Rōmaji transcription of ごく Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Goku?
A machine transcription gives /ɡoku/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Goku have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 137 people named Goku in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goku.
How common is the name Goku?
Mondonomo estimates about 140 people in Brazil have Goku as their first given name, about 1 in 1.5 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goku

The 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, “Goku”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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