How common is the surname Goes?

538 people in the United States had the surname Goes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. It ranked 40,610th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Goes?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Goes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Goes?

Rodrygo, Brazilian association football player, followed by Edu Lobo.

Where is the surname Goes most common?

Wikidata records people named Goes in Brazil.

Is the surname Goes getting more or less common?

Less common. 546 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 538 in 2010, down 1.5%.

The surname Goes

A Dutch place surname, carried by 538 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goes is more common than 75% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Dutch Goes, a habitational surname from a city in the province of Zeeland. * Borrowed from Portuguese Goes, a habitational surname from any of several places called Góis.

Goes is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 538 people named Goes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. That is down 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 546.

#40,610

rank among US surnames

538

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-1.5%

change since 2000 (was #38,141)

Who is named Goes

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

89% of people named Goes identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.8%
Two or more races 2.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Goess

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Rodrygo
Brazilian association football player, born 2001
Edu Lobo
Brazilian singer, born 1943

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Goes

Goes has the Soundex code G200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G200.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Goes come from?: Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Dutch Goes, a habitational surname from a city in the province of Zeeland. * Borrowed from Portuguese Goes, a habitational surname from any of several places called Góis.
How common is the surname Goes?: 538 people in the United States had the surname Goes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. It ranked 40,610th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Goes?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Goes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Goes?: Rodrygo, Brazilian association football player, followed by Edu Lobo.
Where is the surname Goes most common?: Wikidata records people named Goes in Brazil.
What type of surname is Goes?: Goes is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Goes getting more or less common?: Less common. 546 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 538 in 2010, down 1.5%.