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    The surname Goring

    An English place surname, carried by 637 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G652

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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). Goring is more common than 78.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

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

    Goring is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 637 people named Goring in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 484,687 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 636.

    #35,345
    rank among US surnames
    637
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #33,782)

    Who is named Goring

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

    55% of people named Goring identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 55%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 36%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.4%
    • Two or more races 3.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Gorings

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Marius Goring
      British actor (1912–1998)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Goring

    Goring has the Soundex code G652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G652.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Goring come from?
    From Old English Garingas (“people of Gara”), a short form of the various compound names with the first element gār (“spear, arrow, dart”).
    How common is the surname Goring?
    637 people in the United States had the surname Goring in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 484,687 Americans. It ranked 35,345th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goring?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Goring identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Goring?
    Marius Goring, British actor (1912–1998).
    Where is the surname Goring most common?
    Wikidata records people named Goring in the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Goring?
    Goring is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Goring getting more or less common?
    More common. 636 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 637 in 2010, up 0.2%.