Goth (surname)

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Goth, Göth (also Goeth) or Góth is a surname of German and Hungarian origin.

The German-language surname is a variant of Goethe (also Göthe), which belongs to the group of surnames derived from given names, in this case given names in Got-, in most cases likely Gottfried (c.f. Götz). The name is comparatively rare; the German phonebook (as of 2013) has 179 entries for Göth and 28 entries for Goeth.^[1]

Notable people with the surname include:

Goth

• Elisabeth Goth, American horse breeder and businesswoman
• Marie Goth (1887–1975), American painter
• Mia Goth (born 1993), English actress and model

Göth or Goeth

• Amon Göth (1908–1946), Austrian Nazi commandant of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp and executed war criminal
  • Jennifer Teege, née Göth (born 1970) daughter of Monika Hertwig
    •  [de], née Göth (born 1945) daughter of Amon Göth and subject of the 2006 documentary Inheritance
•  [de] (1898–1944), Austrian teacher and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
•  [de] (1803–1873), Austrian historian and naturalist
•  [de] (born 1957), German composer
•  [de] (1836–1926), German-American author

Góth

•  [hu] (1873–1944), Hungarian painter, father of Sárika Góth
•  [hu] (1869–1946), Hungarian actor and director
• Sárika Góth (1880–1953), Hungarian-Dutch painter, daughter of Móric Góth

See also[]

• Goethe (surname)
• Goth (disambiguation)

References[]

Surname list

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