# Gooch (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/gooch/  
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) | 11,453 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,155 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 26,958 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.1% (11,107 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Gotch |

## Etymology

Variant of Goff.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gooch 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) | 75% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 20% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gooch in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Gooch

- Lynden Gooch, American soccer player
- Jon Gooch, British DJ
- Frank Austin Gooch, American chemist (1852–1929)

## Similar surnames

Gosch, Goss, Gage, Gough, Guess, Gass, Giese, Gause, Gasca, Gish, Ghosh, Geis.

## 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.