Meaning & origin
What it means
As an English surname of Cornish and Breton origin, it goes back to a word meaning “smith.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
As an English surname of Cornish and Breton origin, it goes back to a word meaning “smith”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1888. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Goff through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1920. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 31,014 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Goff’s family of names
In English usage, Goff as a surname has a related form in GOOCH.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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