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The surname Goguen

A surname, carried by 1,531 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G250

Goguen: #18,177 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Goguen #18,177, 1,531 people Goguen: #18,177 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Goguen #18,177, 1,531 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goguen is more common than 88.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,531 people named Goguen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 201,663 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,537.

#18,177
rank among US surnames
1,531
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-0.4%
change since 2000 (was #17,040)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#18,177Albury1,531201,663
#18,184Colvard1,530201,794

Who is named Goguen

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

96% of people named Goguen identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Goguen

Goguen has the Soundex code G250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G250.

Questions

How common is the surname Goguen?
1,531 people in the United States had the surname Goguen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 201,663 Americans. It ranked 18,177th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Goguen?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Goguen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Goguen getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,537 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,531 in 2010, down 0.4%.