Surname
Gotō
Gotō (五藤) is a Japanese surname. Its kanji mean five + wisteria, and Wikidata lists 12 notable people with this family name.
ご · と · う · ごとう
What Gotō means
五
five
藤
wisteria
Where the name comes from
The ending 藤 (wisteria), read tō, links Gotō to the Fujiwara clan, the court family that dominated Japan for centuries. Surnames such as Satō, Itō, Katō and Saitō are traditionally explained as branches of the Fujiwara, with the first kanji marking a place or office.