The surname Goo
A Korean surname, carried by 1,299 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex G000
Origin
Korean origin
From the Korean surname, spelling variant of Koo. Also see Gu.
One of 42 Korean surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,299 people named Goo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 237,679 Americans. That is down 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,316.
Who is named Goo
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
64% of people named Goo identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 21% as two or more races and 9.8% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 64%
- Two or more races 21%
- White (not Hispanic) 9.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.2%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Goo has the Soundex code G000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G000.
Other Korean surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Goo come from?
- From the Korean surname, spelling variant of Koo. Also see Gu.
- How common is the surname Goo?
- 1,299 people in the United States had the surname Goo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 237,679 Americans. It ranked 20,449th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Goo?
- In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Goo identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 21% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Goo getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,316 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,299 in 2010, down 1.3%.