Goren
surname · Latin script
Meaning: altered form of Horn 5, under Russian influence; since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Goren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 108K
- USUnited States1 in 372K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gören in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, CY Cyprus.
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)
altered form of Horn 5, under Russian influence; since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g. In Israel the name has been reinterpreted by folk etymology as being from Hebrew goren ‘threshing floor’, which is in fact etymologically and semantically unrelated.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goren 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #447 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Gören | 51 |
| US United States | — | 895 | 1 in 372K | 970 | Goren | 265 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Gören | 48 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Goren | 59 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Goren | 54 |
| CY Cyprus | #704 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gören | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Goren | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Goren is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Russ, influence, since Russ, has no /h/ and alters Ihl in bor¬ rowed words to Igl. In Israel the name has been reinter¬ preted by folk etymology as being from Hebr. goren threshing floor, which is in fact etymologically and seman¬ tically unrelated. Var.: Gorenn. Cpd: Gorenstein (alteration, under Russ, influence, of Homstein; see cpds of Horn) .
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Russian, Goren, Kievan governor. 1147.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Albanian, north wind, a strong and cold wind (often with snow), gale, blizzard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, first/third-person plural preterite of gären
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of gorar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Natan Gorenb. 1887ILauthor and literary critic (1887–1956)
- Shraga Gorenb. 1898ILIsraeli politician (1898–1972)
- Charles Gorenb. 1901USAmerican bridge player and writer (1901–1991)
- Shlomo Gorenb. 1917ILIsraeli military officer and rabbi (1917–1994)
- Ya'akov Gorenb. 1925ILIsraeli author
- Arthur A. Gorenb. 1926USAmerican Jewish historian and professor (1926–2022)
- Dina Gorenb. 1930ILIsraeli journalist and communication scholar
- Edna Gorenb. 1943ILIsraeli singer
- Carine Gorenb. 1974ILIsraeli pastry chef
- Adam Gorenb. 1975USAmerican synthpunk musician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 970 | #26,496 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 955 | #24,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 895 | #27,059 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Goren mean, and where does it come from?
- altered form of Horn 5, under Russian influence; since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Goren have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Goren in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gören.
- How common is the name Goren?
- In the United States, the national register counted 895 people named Goren in 2010, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
- How common is Goren compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Goren is the 447th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gorenThe 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, “Goren” — the 447th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.