The Goto surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,302 people carried this name — #9,803 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 89,300 people counted. That is down 30% from 4,695 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Goto surname
Borrowed from Japanese 後藤 (Gotō).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Goto» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 34 people named Goto live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Goto in American newspapers,
1904–1921.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 121 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Goto in Australian newspapers,
1840s–1980s.
1,576 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Goto. The most, 436, date from the 1940s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in the Australian Capital Territory, at 1.4 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Goto.
Who carried it
People named Goto,
with a public archive behind them.
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Joseph Goto 1916–1994 · artist
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John Goto 1949–2023 · painter
Wikidata (CC0) · 4 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Goto,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States342 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 251
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 49
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 32
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 3
- Sacramento County historic burials 3
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Tom T. GotoBorn 1919 in California. Enlisted 1941 at San Francisco; farm hand from Santa Cruz County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Pioneer Cemetery, Watsonville, California.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Mitsuro GotoBorn 1930; from Denver County, Colorado. U.S. Army, translator; died of wounds 1950 in South Korea.
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Giuseppe-Anto. GotoArrived at New York in 1891 aboard the Burgundia from Marseilles and Naples, aged 26; peasant. From Italy; bound for New York.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 342 records for Goto in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Canada2 records
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Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Magobei GotoDied 1907; buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia.
City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. -
Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Shiro GotoDied 1939; buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia.
City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver.
Counts: City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Goto.
- Gosset 168 · U.S. census
- Gossett 11,389 · U.S. census
- Gossin 166 · U.S. census
- Gosson 295 · U.S. census
- Goth 677 · U.S. census
- Gothier 155 · U.S. census
- Gott 4,989 · U.S. census
- Gottardi 209 · U.S. census
- Gottardo 119 · U.S. census
- Gotte 335 · U.S. census
- Gottfried 2,180 · U.S. census
- Gotti 306 · U.S. census
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