Gota

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Moshe Zerahiah ben Shneur Gota, rabbi; before 1492

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gota is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Moshe Zerahiah ben Shneur Gota, rabbi; before 1492

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Gota is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—45Gota34
FI Finland—1.6K—1
SE Sweden—1.5K—2
ES Spain—157—1
BR Brazil—117——

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Gota is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Göta

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Göta

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Göta, Gōta

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Goeta, Göta

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gōta, Gôta

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Göta

56 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)

Gota 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.

  • In Portuguese, drop (liquid)

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

  • In nia, mutated form of ota (“udder”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, a drop (a small spheroid or amount of liquid)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In non, accusative/dative/genitive singular of goti

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Occitan, drop (small amount of a liquid)

    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)

18601880190019201940Göta Klintberg, b. 1875Göta Ljungberg, b. 1893Svea Welander, b. 1898Göta Lindberg, b. 1903Göta Rosén, b. 1904Göta Blomberg, b. 1915Göta Fogler, b. 1919Göta Pettersson, b. 1926Göta Tellesch, b. 1932

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 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Gota
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—157#19,838
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—157#19,795
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—117#56,228
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—45#47,651
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—26#53,853
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#73,592

Reference works 3

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 Gota mean, and where does it come from?
Moshe Zerahiah ben Shneur Gota, rabbi; before 1492 Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
In which country does Gota have the most bearers?
Gota is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled gota.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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