Goosey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Goose-eye’; first attested Robert Gosege 1167 P (D)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɡusi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goosey is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Goose-eye’; first attested Robert Gosege 1167 P (D). Also from Goosey, Berkshire; first attested Walter de Gosey 1242 Fees (Berks)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Goosey 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 English, called from OEgos Goose + eg island. 2. nickname from OEgos Goose + eage eye. Var.: Goozee. American and Canadian bearers of the name Goozee are des¬ cended from the Englishman William Ellinger Goozee (d. i8go), clerk and sexton to the parish of Ringwould, Kent, members of whose family have been established in the U.S. and Canada since ,883.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)- William Gooseyentomologist (died 1878)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 327 | #65,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 220 | #85,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 220 | #80,216 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Goosey come from?
- ‘Goose-eye’; first attested Robert Gosege 1167 P (D). Also from Goosey, Berkshire; first attested Walter de Gosey 1242 Fees (Berks) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Goosey?
- In the etymology graph, Goosy is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Goosey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡusi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Goosey mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Goose-eye’; first attested Robert Gosege 1167 P (D).
- In which country does Goosey have the most bearers?
- Goosey is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gooseyThe 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, “Goosey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.