Gassen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of several places so named in Bavaria, Hessen, Rhineland, Brandenburg
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɡæsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gassen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 80K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 599K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 110K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)habitational name from any of several places so named in Bavaria, Hessen, Rhineland, Brandenburg.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gassen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Gassen | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 1,057 | 1 in 200K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 80K | listed | Gassen | 84 |
| US United States | 555 | 1 in 599K | 661 | Gassen | 181 |
| GH Ghana | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Gassen | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Gassen | 8 |
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; the dfa-band-4 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Gassen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, to hit the gas, to accelerate a motor vehicle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of gass
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)- Gottlieb Gassenb. 1805DEGerman painter (1805-1878)
- Kurt Gassenb. 1892DEGerman librarian
- Joseline Gassenb. 1951DEGerman actress and voice actress (1951-)
- Andreas Gassenb. 1962DEGerman orthopedic surgeon (1962-)
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,820 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 661 | #36,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 608 | #35,106 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 555 | #39,607 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gassen mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of several places so named in Bavaria, Hessen, Rhineland, Brandenburg. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gassen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡæsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gassen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Gassen in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gassen.
- How common is the name Gassen?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,057 people named Gassen, about 1 in 200 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gassenThe 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, “Gassen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.