Göte

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Göte är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Göt- eller en bildning till fornsvenskt gøt ’invånare i Götaland, göt’

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/j2:te/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Göte is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 70K
  • NONorway≈1 in 899K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

8,929 people

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Swedish

Göte är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Göt- eller en bildning till fornsvenskt gøt ’invånare i Götaland, göt’. Namnet föll i glömska efter 1500-talet och återupptäcktes i samband med göticismen (→ Göta) i 1800-talets början. I den rikssvenska almanackan 27 januari och i den finlandssvenska 8 september.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Göte 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 Göte is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#8458,9291 in 1.1K8.9KGöte28
FI Finland—801 in 70K193Göte5
NO Norway—≈6 est.≈1 in 899K22Göte2
DK Denmark———10Göte9
IN India———123——
BR Brazil———64——

8,929 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Gote

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Philippines, India

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gote, Goete, Goté

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Goté, Goṭe, Gote

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gote, Gotë, Goté

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, India

    Also written Gote

  • Thai surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Goto, โกโต, โกโตะ, โกโต้, โกทู

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gote

  • Turkish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gote

10 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)

Göte is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, singular dative of göt

    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)

18801900192019401960Göte Wilhelm Turesson, b. 1892Göte Hagström, b. 1918Göte Almqvist, b. 1921Göte Svenson, b. 1924Göte Blomqvist, b. 1928Göte Fyhring, b. 1929Henry Thillberg, b. 1930Göte Jonsson, b. 1939Göte Wahlström, b. 1951Göte Wälitalo, b. 1956

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)

InformalHej Göte,Hi Göte, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Göte
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—8.9K#429
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)19996.9K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20006.7K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20016.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20026.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20036.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20045.9K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20055.7K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20065.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20075.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20085.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20094.9K—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 are other forms of the name Göte?
In the etymology graph, Josselin and Joscelin are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Göte?
A machine transcription gives /j2:te/ (IPA) for Swedish.
Is Göte a male or female name?
Göte is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Göte mean?
Recorded meaning: Göte är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Göt- eller en bildning till fornsvenskt gøt ’invånare i Götaland, göt’.
In which country does Göte have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 8.9 thousand people named Göte, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled göte.
Where is Göte most common?
Göte is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Göte?
In Sweden, the national register counted 8,929 people named Göte, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Göte compared with other names?
In Sweden, Göte is the 845th most common given name of 45,482 given names 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, “Göte” — the 845th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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