Gorey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: reduced Americanized form of Mac Gafraidh or Mac Gofraidh ‘son of Gafradh' (see McCaffrey)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɔɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gorey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 471K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 58K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 98K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
706 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
reduced Americanized form of Mac Gafraidh or Mac Gofraidh ‘son of Gafradh' (see McCaffrey).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gorey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 706 | 1 in 471K | 805 | Gorey | 221 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Gorey | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Gorey | 60 |
| AU Australia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Gorey | 74 |
| IT Italy | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 337K | — | Gorey | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Gorey | 38 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Gorey | 1 |
706 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Denis Goreyb. 1874IEIrish politician (1874–1940)
- Edward Goreyb. 1925USAmerican writer, artist, and illustrator (1925–2000)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 805 | #28,028 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 777 | #31,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 706 | #32,562 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/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
- What does the name Gorey mean, and where does it come from?
- reduced Americanized form of Mac Gafraidh or Mac Gofraidh ‘son of Gafradh' (see McCaffrey). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gorey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɔɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gorey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 706 people named Gorey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gorey.
- How common is the name Gorey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 706 people named Gorey in 2010, about 1 in 471 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goreyThe 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, “Gorey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.