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
 * Góth Móric (1873–1944), Hungarian painter, father of Sárika Góth
 * Góth Sándor (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