# Goring (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/goring/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 637 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,345 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 484,687 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.2% (636 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English Garingas (“people of Gara”), a short form of the various compound names with the first element gār (“spear, arrow, dart”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Goring 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) | 55% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 36% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.4% |
| Two or more races | 3.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Goring in the United Kingdom.

## People named Goring

- Marius Goring, British actor (1912–1998)

## Similar surnames

Goehring, Goering, Gehring, Grainger, Gering, Grimes, Granger, Grooms, Garnica, Grimsley, Gurung, Grams.

## 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.