Göte
Meaning and origin
Old Norse Gauti, Gautr ("a Geat", "a resident of Götaland"), from Proto-Germanic *gautaz.
Source: Wiktionary, Swedish entry for Göte (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Popularity in Sweden
Among newborns, Göte has been fairly steady over the last few years. Its best year between 1998 and 2022 was 2020. The figures are for this exact spelling; other spellings of the name are counted on their own.
Years with fewer than two babies (fewer than ten before 2004) show as zero in the chart and as – in the table.
Show the figures
| Year | Boys |
|---|---|
| 1998 | – |
| 1999 | – |
| 2000 | – |
| 2001 | – |
| 2002 | – |
| 2003 | – |
| 2004 | – |
| 2005 | – |
| 2006 | – |
| 2007 | 2 |
| 2008 | – |
| 2009 | 2 |
| 2010 | – |
| 2011 | – |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 4 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 16 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 8 |
Everyone registered in Sweden on 31 December with this as the first name they use.
Show the figures
| Year | Men and boys |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 6,949 |
| 2000 | 6,741 |
| 2001 | 6,543 |
| 2002 | 6,320 |
| 2003 | 6,106 |
| 2004 | 5,896 |
| 2005 | 5,707 |
| 2006 | 5,511 |
| 2007 | 5,323 |
| 2008 | 5,104 |
| 2009 | 4,873 |
| 2010 | 4,639 |
| 2011 | 4,422 |
| 2012 | 4,198 |
| 2013 | 4,002 |
| 2014 | 3,833 |
| 2015 | 3,624 |
| 2016 | 3,433 |
| 2017 | 3,237 |
| 2018 | 3,076 |
| 2019 | 2,882 |
| 2020 | 2,714 |
Göte in a sentence
- Hej! Jag heter Göte.Hi! My name is Göte.
- Göte bor i Umeå och jobbar som snickare.Göte lives in Umeå and works as a carpenter.
- Jag ska fika med Göte i eftermiddag.I'm having coffee with Göte this afternoon.
- Götes mamma är lärare.Göte's mum is a teacher.
Swedish shows possession with a plain -s and no apostrophe: Götes mamma is Göte's mum.
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Questions about Göte
How do you pronounce Göte in Swedish?
Press Listen at the top of the page to hear Göte from a native speaker's recording. Ö is like the vowel in 'bird', said with rounded lips.
What does the name Göte mean?
Old Norse Gauti, Gautr ("a Geat", "a resident of Götaland"), from Proto-Germanic *gautaz.
How popular is Göte in Sweden?
8 babies were named Göte in 2022. In 2020, 2,714 people in Sweden had Göte as the first name they go by. Among newborns the name has been fairly steady lately and peaked in 2020 in the years SCB covers (1998–2022).
Popularity figures: Statistics Sweden (SCB), name statistics (BE0001) from the Statistical Database, released as open data under CC0. Each spelling is counted as its own name, as SCB does. SCB's open name statistics end with babies named in 2022 and the population on 31 December 2020; SCB stopped producing name statistics in 2024 and now points to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) for newer figures.
Origins, IPA and recordings: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), via kaikki.org; recordings from Lingua Libre on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA). Lingolib is not affiliated with SCB or Wiktionary. Sources last checked 7 October 2026.