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The GOSSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 867 26469 0 3
United States (1880 census) 98 31931 0 2
Change since 1880 +769 +5462 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 29 38769 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GOSSE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 226 3043 0.004 42
Minnesota 81 8826 0.002 16
California 54 37181 0.000 2
New York 52 32042 0.000 3
Massachusetts 47 14840 0.001 7
Top States for GOSSE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 226 3043 0.004 42
New Hampshire 22 6726 0.002 18
Minnesota 81 8826 0.002 16
Iowa 38 11145 0.001 13
Idaho 10 15380 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of GOSSE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GOSSE surname.

Ethnic distribution of GOSSE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 840 96.89
White (Hispanic) 9 1.04
Mixed Race 8 0.92
Black/African American 7 0.81
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 GOSSE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

GOSSE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GOSSE in historical publications

GOSSE. Li Scotland, a sponsor for a child; but more probably the A-Sax. gos, a goose.

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 GOSSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOSSE.

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 GOSSE

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