Why Is Gokus Son Goku

The word Sun is replaced by Son and Goku is played off from Wukong. In the Dragon Ball universe Son is the family name of Goku, hence the name Son Goku. He inherited the family name from his adoptive Grandpa Son Gohan.

Is Son Goku the same as Goku?

The character Goku is based on Sun Wukong (Son Goku in Japanese), the central character of the Chinese novel Journey to the West. … Toriyama did not initially plan to make Goku an alien, it was not until the introduction of fighters from other planets that he established him as a Saiyan.

Why did Gohan name Goku?

Jaco the Galactic Patrolman Grandpa Gohan feeds the alien and he questions where he came from. Since he doesn’t know what his name was, he gives him the name, “Son Goku” because he came from the sky.