Gohan

#2,850 in 2025Boys' name

Cooked rice

Gohan has been given to 589 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,850 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Gohan, 2025

1 in 75,300

Gohan over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gohan: meaning, origin, and history

Cooked rice

Japanese

What Gohan means

Gohan means “cooked rice”, associated with gohan.

Origin, language, and formation

Gohan is used in Cebuano. Its origins include Japanese.

Gohan comes through Japanese ごはん.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 589 boys were recorded with the name Gohan between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,453 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,943 in 2020 to #2,850 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,918 in 2015 to #2,850 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gohan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 75,300; 44 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 38,800; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #2,850; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 52,226 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gohan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gohan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gohans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gohan was born before 2019 — so the typical Gohan is around 6 today.

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 99.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 589; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (268).

Is Gohan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −397; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +93; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,068; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.63×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 78.6%; Peak was 2024 (56)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,453; 2024

Spellings of Gohan

Gohan is not the most common spelling — John is, with 79.6% against Gohan's <0.01%.

John79.6%5,182,633
Ethan7.5%487,389
Logan6.0%387,999
Nolan2.1%135,505
Roman1.6%104,653
Rowan0.78%50,628
Cohen0.35%23,040
Ronan0.32%20,679

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gohan is used

Across 1910–2025, Gohan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 234,231 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 100,000
2California1 in —
3Florida1 in —
4North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gohan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gohan around the world

Where Gohan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
2005–2025
#2,162
in 2025
Canada
2017–2023
#2,747
in 2023

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gohan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #2,850
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 93
Best rank ever: #2,453; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 56 that year
First recorded: 2000
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 589
Count in 2025: 44

Names similar to Gohan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Aahan Zohan Vihan Orhan Jahan Arhan Sohan Cohan Rihan Mohan Ruhan Ithan Eshan Loghan Zephan Eoghan Rehan Rishan Khan Ehan Arshan Ashan Subhan Rayhan

Sibling names for Gohan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Leonor Keren Shoshana Nila Karleigh Kamilah Eloisa Denisse

For a brother

Evans Caesar Hamilton Henri Arvin Leander Lucio Linus

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