Goro
Goro is a name with a single cultural origin: Japanese.
- Japanese
Meaning & Origin of Goro
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Goro is a name with a single cultural origin: Japanese.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Japanese
The Story of Goro
The earliest SSA record of Goro as a baby boy name dates back to 1916, when 8 babies received it. 1923 was its biggest year on record, with 12 newborns named Goro — #2,446 in the national rankings. About 83% of every Goro on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Goro last appeared in the published SSA data in 1928, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 77 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Goro
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Goro. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Gorō
- Gorou
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About the name Goro
Goro is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1916 and has accumulated 77 births in the dataset. Goro's peak popularity came in 1923 when it ranked #2,446. Use the chart and map above to compare Goro's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.