Gould

Gould is the 925th most common surname in the United States, shared by 36,956 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,088.

By the numbers

People: 36,956
Rank: 925th
How common: 1 in 8,088
Per 100,000: 12.4

Where the name comes from

Variant of Gold.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)American biologist and historian of science
Glenn Gould (1932–1982)Canadian composer and pianist
Elliott Gould (born 1938)American actor
John Gould (1804–1881)English ornithologist
Nolan Gould (born 1998)American actor
Dana Gould (born 1964)American stand-up comedian
Gordon Gould (1920–2005)American physicist and inventor
Alexander Gould (born 1994)American actor, voice artist, producer, director, and screenwriter

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

Surnames like Gould

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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.