Gotō

surname · Latin script

Gotō is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From go to, a keyword for this purpose in many programming languages.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

From go to, a keyword for this purpose in many programming languages.

Sources 3

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gotō counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Gotō is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—4.7K—
BR Brazil—2K—
FI Finland—40—
AR Argentina—34—
ES Spain—23—

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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

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

  • Portuguese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Peru, Venezuela

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Goto, Gotô

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Goto, Gotô

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Goto

2 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Shōjirō Gotō, b. 1838Gotō Shinpei, b. 1857Fumio Gotō, b. 1884Hirohito Gotō, b. 1969Midori Gotō, b. 1971Kumiko Goto, b. 1974Hirooki Goto, b. 1979Mariko Gotō, b. 1982Maki Goto, b. 1985Yūki Gotō, b. 1986

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Gotō mean, and where does it come from?
From go to, a keyword for this purpose in many programming languages. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 1 other source.
In which country does Gotō have the most bearers?
Gotō is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/got%C5%8D

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, “Gotō”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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