Goins is a surname. "Irish: variant of Going. Possibly an altered form of German Göing (see Going)" (Ancestry.com, 2013). It also comes from the French province of Bourbonnais.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Boris Goins (born 1967), American sprinter
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Edray Herber Goins (born 1972), African-American mathematician
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Glenn Goins
Glenn Lamonte Goins (January 2, 1954 – July 29, 1978), also known as Glen Goins, was a singer and guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic in the mid-1970s. Goins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, posthumously inducted in 1997 with fift ...
(1954–1978), American singer-songwriter and musician
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Herbie Goins
Hubert Leroy "Herbie" Goins (February 21, 1939 – October 27, 2015) was an American rhythm & blues singer. He worked mainly in England in the 1960s, notably with Alexis Korner and then as the leader of Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers (or N ...
(born 1939), American singer
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Jesse D. Goins, American actor
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Michele Goins, American businesswoman
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Ray Goins (1936–2007), American bluegrass banjoist
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Ryan Goins
Ryan Matthew Goins (born February 13, 1988) is an American professional baseball second baseman and shortstop in the Kansas City Royals organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Royals, and C ...
(born 1988), American professional baseball player
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