Goth (surname)

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.

Notable people with the surname

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
    • Monika Hertwig, née Göth (born 1945) daughter of Amon Göth and subject of the 2006 documentary Inheritance
• Eduard Göth (1898–1944), Austrian teacher and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
• Georg Göth (1803–1873), Austrian historian and naturalist
• Martin Göth (born 1957), German composer
• Ottilie Goeth (1836–1926), German-American author

Góth

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

Fictional characters

• Goth family, characters in The Sims video game franchise
  • Bella Goth, a member of the family

See also

• Goethe (surname)
• Goth (disambiguation)