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

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

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

rarermore common
  • 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)

≈20,000 people, est.

Sources
265 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

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:

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.

Where Goren is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#447≈20,000 est.≈1 in 4K—Gören51
US United States—8951 in 372K970Goren265
DE Germany—≈740 est.≈1 in 108K—Gören48
IL Israel—≈510 est.≈1 in 17K—Goren59
CA Canada—≈190 est.≈1 in 197K—Goren54
CY Cyprus#704≈110 est.≈1 in 12K—Gören5
JM Jamaica—≈44 est.≈1 in 65K—Goren1

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Goren is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Poland, Romania

    Also written גורן, גרן, Goran, גוראן, Göran

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Gören, Gôren

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gôren, Gōren, Gören

  • Polish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Israel, Türkiye, United States

    Also written Gören, Goreń, Góren, Ğören

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Israel, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Gören

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Горень, Горен, Gören, Горэн

  • Norwegian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Israel, Türkiye

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Gören, Goreń

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Israel, Egypt, United States

    Also written Gören

34 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)

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)

1850190019502000Natan Goren, b. 1887Shraga Goren, b. 1898Charles Goren, b. 1901Shlomo Goren, b. 1917Ya'akov Goren, b. 1925Arthur A. Goren, b. 1926Dina Goren, b. 1930Edna Goren, b. 1943Carine Goren, b. 1974Adam Goren, b. 1975

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Goren,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Goren
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020970#26,496
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000955#24,529
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010895#27,059
US United Stateswru 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.
How do you pronounce Goren?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɔɹən/ (IPA) for English.
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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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.

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