Gough

8,455 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gough in the 2020 census, making it the 4,073rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 35,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,455
Rank: 4,073rd
How common: 1 in 35,400
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

As a Welsh surname, from coch (“red”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gough described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.1%
Black, not Hispanic 8.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gough

Michael Gough (1916–2011)English actor
Richard Gough (born 1962)Scottish footballer
Denise Gough (born 1980)Irish actress
Alfred Gough (born 1967)American screenwriter and producer
Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779–1869)British field marshal
Alex Gough (born 1987)Canadian luger
Westley Gough (born 1988)New Zealand racing cyclist
Hubert Gough (1870–1963)British Army general

People named Gough with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gough

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.