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Goten

#12,672 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Goten has been given to 51 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #12,672 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Goten, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Goten: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Goten means

Goten is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Goten is used in Cebuano. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 51 boys were recorded with the name Goten between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2024; its best national rank was #6,978 in 2024.

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 Goten?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,672
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Goten 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Goten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gotens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Goten was born before 2022 — so the typical Goten is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
78.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
51
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 78.4% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Goten 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
−5,694
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2024 (12)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,978
2024

Spellings of Goten

Goten is not the most common spelling — Owen is, with 42.6% against Goten'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.

Goten around the world

Where Goten 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
    2018–2025
    #3,248
    in 2025

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

Goten by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,672
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,978
2024
Peak year
2024
12 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
51
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Goten

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

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Sibling names for Goten

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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