Gô

surname · Latin script

Meaning: billycan

Gô is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil
  • VNVietnam
  • ITItaly

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.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
35 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Go in BR Brazil, IN India, VN Vietnam and 2 more.

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)

billycan

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

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

Where Gô is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—519Go1
IN India——Go9
VN Vietnam——Go1
IT Italy——Go4
US United States—5KGo35

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)

Gô is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Go, Gö, Go', Gó, G-O

  • Korean surname145 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: Korean, English, German

    Also written 고, Ko, Goe, Koe, Go

  • Portuguese surname41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Chile

    Languages: Portuguese, Italian, Spanish

    Also written Go, Gó, G-O, G'O, Gö

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Go, Gö, Gǒ, Gó, Gō

6 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)

Gô is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In apn, water

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

  • In Serbo-Croatian, ’goli, midus’

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gô under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gô mean, and where does it come from?
billycan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Gô have the most bearers?
Gô is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled go.

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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, “Gô”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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