Given name
Goten
Goten is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Goten through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51
- 51 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,676 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,676 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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