Gorše

Name: Gorše: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

/ɡorʂe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gorše is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name from a derivative of gora ‘mountain’, ‘hill planted with vines’, ‘wood in a hill country’ (see Gornik).

rarermore common

SISlovenia1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
HRCroatia1 in 101K
CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Slovenia (measured from records)
Record sources: 18 (measured from records)
: 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Gorse

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

topographic name from a derivative of gora ‘mountain’, ‘hill planted with vines’, ‘wood in a hill country’ (see Gornik).

Cited for this meaning 3

Dictionary of American Family Names
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Gorše 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 Gorše is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
SI Slovenia	#861	616	1 in 3.4K	616	Gorše	12
US United States	—	269	1 in 1.2M	309	—	1
HR Croatia	—	42	1 in 101K	42	Gorše	18
IN India	—	17	1 in 78M	17	—	—
ES Spain	—	17	1 in 2.9M	17	—	—
CH Switzerland	—	7	1 in 1.2M	7	—	—

616 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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

Gorše is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Colombia, United Kingdom
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Gorse, Görse
English surname10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Gorse, Görse, Goerse
French surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada
Also written Gorse, Gõrsę
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Gorse
a separate name4 spellings in the group
Also written Gorse, Gõrse
Hindi surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, United Kingdom, United States
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Gorse

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name

France Goršeb. 1897USSlovenian sculptor
Božidar Goršeb. 1918ITviolinist
Bogomir Goršeb. 1918ITviolinist
Dušan Goršeb. 1954SISlovene police officer
Olga GoršeSIresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

FormalPoštovani Gorše,Dear Gorše, (English)

InformalPoštovani Gorše,Hello, (English)

Evidence

6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Gorše
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
SI Slovenia	stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)	—	616	#419
HR Croatia	DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)	2021	42	#14,921
HR Croatia	DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)	2021	34	—

Reference works 2

Wikipedia surname tokens
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gorše mean, and where does it come from?: topographic name from a derivative of gora ‘mountain’, ‘hill planted with vines’, ‘wood in a hill country’ (see Gornik). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
How do you pronounce Gorše?: A machine transcription gives /ɡorʂe/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Gorše have the most bearers?: In Slovenia, the national register counted about 616 people named Gorše, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gorše.
Where is Gorše most common?: Gorše is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gorše?: In Slovenia, the national register counted 616 people named Gorše, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
How common is Gorše compared with other names?: In Slovenia, Gorše is the 861st most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gor%C5%A1e

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 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, “Gorše” — the 861st most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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