# Goble (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/goble/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 9,022 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,947 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 34,221 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.2% (8,580 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Goble in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Goble in the United Kingdom, the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Goble

- Carole Goble, British computer scientist
- Paul A. Goble, American based professor and expert on Russia (born 1949)
- Warwick Goble, British artist (1862–1943)

## Similar surnames

Gable, Goebel, Gobel, Gobble, Gabel, Gopal, Geibel.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.