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Goro

Boys' name

God + secret knowledge, rune, through Guro

Goro has been given to 77 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Goro, 1928

1 in 251,000

Goro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Goro: meaning, origin, and history

God + secret knowledge, rune, through Guro

Old Norse

What Goro means

Goro belongs to the name family reached through Goro → Guro. Its meaning is “god + secret knowledge, rune”.

Origin, language, and formation

Goro is used in Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Guro.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Goro is pronounced /ˈɡuː.ru/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 77 boys were recorded with the name Goro between 1916 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1923; its best national rank was #2,503 in 1923.

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 Goro?

Goro had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1928
1 in 251,000
9 of 2,260,857 births
Among boys only
1 in 123,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1928
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
174,124 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Goro 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 1928 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 174,124 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Goro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Goros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Goro was born before 1923 — so the typical Goro is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
83.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 83.1% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Goro 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (12)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,503
1923

Spellings of Goro

Goro is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 68.6% against Goro's <0.01%.

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 Goro is used

Across 1910–2025, Goro was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 14,903 across all states with data.

77 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 14,286

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. Goro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Goro around the world

Where Goro 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.

  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #561
    in 1961

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Goro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,503
1923
Peak year
1923
12 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
77
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Goro

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

GorZoroGorjeGoranGordieGoreeGordyOmoroGormanDoroGordanGorhamGorkemGorgeYsidoroTheodoroTiodoroOroGorgonioGordenEliodoroCrisoforoHeliodoroTeodoro

Sibling names for Goro

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

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