Gosá

surname · Latin script

Gosá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Origin unidentified.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 296K(measured from records)
  • ALAlbania≈1 in 22K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 46K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
192 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gosa in US United States, ZA South Africa, MY Malaysia and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Origin unidentified.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gosá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gosá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈1,200 est.≈1 in 46K—Gosa14
US United States1,1231 in 296K1.1KGosa192
RO Romania≈360 est.≈1 in 59K—Gosa6
IT Italy≈230 est.≈1 in 266K—Gosa6
PL Poland2121 in 181K108—1
MY Malaysia≈170 est.≈1 in 197K—Gosa2
AL Albania≈140 est.≈1 in 22K—Gosa11

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gosá is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Gosa, Goša, Goşa, Goșa

  • Ukrainian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Turkmenistan, United States, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Госа, Gosa, Goşa

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gosá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gosá mean, and where does it come from?
Origin unidentified. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Gosá have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Gosá in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gosa.
How common is the name Gosá?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,123 people named Gosá in 2010, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gosá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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