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The GOSSELIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,967 5369 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 134 25733 0 3
Change since 1880 +5833 +20364 +N/A +19
Other Countries
Australia 16 62428 0 1
United Kingdom 55 25884 0 1
Top States for GOSSELIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,119 669 0.018 176
New Hampshire 616 198 0.050 498
Florida 528 3477 0.003 33
Maine 455 459 0.036 357
Connecticut 402 886 0.012 118
Top States for GOSSELIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 616 198 0.050 498
Delaware 296 337 0.038 378
Maine 455 459 0.036 357
Vermont 213 346 0.035 350
Rhode Island 200 607 0.019 191

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

Classification and Origin of GOSSELIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GOSSELIN 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 GOSSELIN 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 GOSSELIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 109 1.83
Mixed Race 55 0.92
Asian/Pacific 37 0.62
Black/African American 20 0.34
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.23
White (Caucasian) 5,732 96.06

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

Meaning of GOSSELIN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GOSSELIN.

Similar names to GOSSELIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOSSELIN.

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 GOSSELIN

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