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    The surname Goh

    A Chinese surname, carried by 1,528 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G000

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goh is more common than 88.8% of them.

    Origin

    Chinese origin

    From Hokkien 吳／吴 (Gô͘), or less commonly, 伍 (Gó͘).

    One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,528 people named Goh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 202,059 Americans. That is up 44% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,063.

    #18,208
    rank among US surnames
    1,528
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +43.7%
    change since 2000 (was #22,570)

    Who is named Goh

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

    88% of people named Goh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 5.6% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as two or more races.

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 88%
    • White (not Hispanic) 5.6%
    • Two or more races 4.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Goh

    Goh has the Soundex code G000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G000.

    Other Chinese surnames

    All 193 Chinese surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Goh come from?
    From Hokkien 吳／吴 (Gô͘), or less commonly, 伍 (Gó͘).
    How common is the surname Goh?
    1,528 people in the United States had the surname Goh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 202,059 Americans. It ranked 18,208th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goh?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Goh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 5.6% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Goh getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,063 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,528 in 2010, up 44%.
    What are other spellings of Goh?
    Go, Wu and Ng.