Find out how popular the last name Goguen is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Goguen.

Goguen, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Goguen surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Goguen in America

Goguen is the 18177th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Goguen surname appeared 1,531 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Goguen.

We can also compare 2010 data for Goguen to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Goguen

The surname Goguen is of French origin, traced back to the region of Brittany in northwestern France. It is believed to have derived from the Breton placename "Goguen" or "Gogouen," which may have meant "red valley" or "little valley." The earliest records of the name date back to the late 16th century in areas around Rennes and Nantes.

One of the earliest documented references to the Goguen name can be found in the parish records of Saint-Malo, where a Jacques Goguen was born in 1587. Another early record is from the nearby town of Dol-de-Bretagne, where a Michel Goguen was listed in the census of 1612.

The name appears to have spread across Brittany and into neighboring regions of France during the 17th and 18th centuries. A notable bearer of the name was François Goguen, a merchant from Rennes who was born in 1658 and established trade connections with England and the Netherlands.

In the 19th century, the Goguen name began to appear in records outside of France, particularly in Canada, where many Bretons had immigrated. One of the earliest recorded Goguens in Canada was Jean-Baptiste Goguen, born in 1810 in the Acadian community of Memramcook, New Brunswick.

Another prominent figure with the Goguen surname was Edouard Goguen, a French-Canadian politician and lawyer who served as a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1891 to 1896. He was born in Shediac, New Brunswick in 1849 and played a significant role in advocating for the rights of Acadian and French-speaking communities in the Maritime provinces.

In more recent history, Jean-Claude Goguen, born in 1923 in Moncton, New Brunswick, was a renowned Canadian artist known for his abstract expressionist paintings and sculptures. He was recognized with numerous awards, including the prestigious Order of Canada in 1993.

Other notable individuals with the Goguen surname include Fernand Goguen, a Canadian businessman and philanthropist born in 1924 in Moncton, New Brunswick, and Marcel Goguen, a French-Canadian writer and journalist born in 1926 in Petit-Rocher, New Brunswick, who published several works exploring Acadian culture and history.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Goguen

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Goguen.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Goguen was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Goguen has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Goguen was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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