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The GOSHEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 481 42437 0 2
United States (1880 census) 211 18536 0 4
Change since 1880 +270 -23901 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 3 34275 0 0
Top States for GOSHEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 57 5659 0.002 21
Ohio 50 27086 0.000 4
California 47 51232 0.000 1
Indiana 43 16822 0.001 7
Florida 32 51278 0.000 2
Top States for GOSHEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 57 5659 0.002 21
Indiana 43 16822 0.001 7
Maryland 29 19801 0.001 5
North Dakota 3 24331 0.000 5
Ohio 50 27086 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of GOSHEN

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

Ethnic distribution of GOSHEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 356 74.01
Black/African American 103 21.41
Mixed Race 9 1.87
Native American/Alaskan 8 1.66
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GOSHEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GOSHEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOSHEN.

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 GOSHEN

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