Goossens
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Goossens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch Goossens.
- BEBelgium1 in 738(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.6K
- FRFrance≈1 in 62K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 738 (inferred from the name graph)
15,883 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
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)
Borrowed from Dutch Goossens.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goossens 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #21 | 15,883 | 1 in 738 | 16K | Goossens | 143 |
| NL Netherlands | #226 | 6,610 | 1 in 2.6K | 6.6K | Goossens | 99 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 133 | Goossens | 177 |
| US United States | — | 558 | 1 in 596K | 589 | Goossens | 138 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Goossens | 69 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Goossens | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 55 | 1 in 153K | 55 | Goossens | 10 |
15,883 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pierre-Lambert Goossensb. 1827BERoman Catholic cardinal (1827–1906)
- Eugene Goossensb. 1893GBEnglish conductor and composer (1893-1962)
- Leon Goossensb. 1897GBBritish musician (1897–1988)
- Sidonie Goossensb. 1899GBBritish musician (1899–2004)
- Ray Goossensb. 1924BEFlemish artist, animator and director (1924-1998)
- Carry Goossensb. 1953BEBelgian actor (born 1953)
- Daniel Goossensb. 1954FRcartoonist
- Jean-Luc Goossensb. 1962screenwriter, film director
- John Goossensb. 1988NLDutch footballer
- Kobe Goossensb. 1996BEBelgian cyclist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16K | #8 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 15K | #8 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6.6K | #111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 589 | #40,169 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 558 | #39,419 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 556 | #37,640 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 152 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 148 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 127 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 107 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Goossens mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Dutch Goossens. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Goossens have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Goossens, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goossens.
- Where is Goossens most common?
- Goossens is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 738 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Goossens?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 15,883 people named Goossens in 2008, about 1 in 738 residents.
- How common is Goossens compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Goossens is the 21st most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goossensThe 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, “Goossens” — the 21st most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.