How common is the surname Gooch?

11,453 people in the United States had the surname Gooch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,958 Americans. It ranked 3,155th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Gooch?

Lynden Gooch, American soccer player, followed by Jon Gooch.

Where is the surname Gooch most common?

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

Is the surname Gooch getting more or less common?

More common. 11,107 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,453 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Gooch

A surname, carried by 11,453 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). Gooch is more common than 98.1% of them.

Origin

Variant of Goff.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 11,453 people named Gooch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,958 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,107.

#3,155

rank among US surnames

11,453

people in 2010

3.9

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #2,984)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,146	Levesque	11,490	26,871
#3,147	Forsythe	11,489	26,873
#3,148	Newby	11,483	26,887
#3,149	Lor	11,479	26,897
#3,150	Sample	11,471	26,915
#3,151	Barbee	11,470	26,918
#3,152	Butterfield	11,468	26,922

Who is named Gooch

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

75% of people named Gooch identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 75%
Black (not Hispanic) 20%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Goochs

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Lynden Gooch
American soccer player, born 1995
Jon Gooch
British DJ, born 1984
Frank Austin Gooch
American chemist (1852–1929)

Notable Goochs come mostly from the United States (2) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Gotch

Surnames that sound like Gooch

Gosch

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

Questions

Where does the surname Gooch come from?: Variant of Goff.
How common is the surname Gooch?: 11,453 people in the United States had the surname Gooch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,958 Americans. It ranked 3,155th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gooch?: In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Gooch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Gooch?: Lynden Gooch, American soccer player, followed by Jon Gooch.
Where is the surname Gooch most common?: Wikidata records people named Gooch in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Is the surname Gooch getting more or less common?: More common. 11,107 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,453 in 2010, up 3.1%.
What are other spellings of Gooch?: Gotch.