Gasse
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature; variant cluster for K. 398 (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/ˈɡasə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Gasse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 140Kfew records
- DEGermany≈1 in 140K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gasse
- German:/ˈɡasə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature; variant cluster for K. 398.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gasse is read
(measured from records)Gasse is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French60%
Probablement du nom germanique Wazzo, dérivé de wad « gage ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gasse in English.
- German10%
Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature; variant cluster for K. 398.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
from Gasse 'lane, street in a village or town; also hollow way'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
alley
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
alley, ginnel, twitchel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Gasse is found
(measured from records)Gasse 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 147 | Gasse | 164 |
| DE Germany | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 140K | listed | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Gasse | 54 |
| US United States | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | listed | Gasse | 33 |
| BR Brazil | 92 | 1 in 2.3M | 92 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 30 | 1 in 576K | 30 | Gasse | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 764K | — | Gasse | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the dfa-band-4 register. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Gasse is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of gassen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Stefano Gasseb. 1778FRItalian architect and urban planner
- Ferdinand Gasseb. 1780FRFrench composer
- Holger Gasseb. 1969DEGerman politician
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
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gasse mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature; variant cluster for K. 398. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Gasse?
- In German /ˈɡasə/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gasse?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Gasse in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gasse. After it come Germany, Canada, United States and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gasse?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 92 people named Gasse, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gasseThe 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 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, “Gasse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.