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The GOSLING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 626 34259 0 2
United States (1880 census) 369 12224 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +257 -22035 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 648 2506 0.004 40
United Kingdom 5,518 1134 0.012 120
Top States for GOSLING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 85 23267 0.000 3
Illinois 45 25038 0.000 4
Michigan 42 25407 0.000 4
Florida 38 34474 0.000 2
Texas 34 31230 0.000 2
Top States for GOSLING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 12 10771 0.001 10
Kentucky 24 10847 0.001 6
Washington DC 3 15601 0.001 5
Colorado 22 19946 0.001 5
Missouri 28 18890 0.001 5

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GOSLING live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GOSLING represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GOSLING in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GOSLING by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GOSLING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GOSLING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GOSLING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GOSLING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 585 93.45
Black/African American 24 3.83
Mixed Race 6 0.96
White (Hispanic) 5 0.8
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GOSLING surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GOSLING in historical publications

GOSLING. GOSTLING. From tlie Anglo-Norman Christian name Joscelyn, or Goccline. Fil' Goeelini, Goscelin, Gosselin, and several other forms are found in the H.E. The assimilation of the nauae to tliat of a j'Oimg goose by tlie addition of the g final is of modern date. Similar instances of the hardening of the soft g orj are observable in tlic Norman dialect. Thus jV<wfe and gi'rbc are made gamhe and guerhe.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GOSLING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOSLING.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GOSLING

The following words are slight variants of GOSLING that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.