Goscinski

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

Meaning: habitational name for someone from Goszczyn, Goszczyna, Goszczynno, or Goszczyno, all places named with a personal name, Goszcza, ultimately from gosc ‘guest’

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ɡɔst͡sins̪ci/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated

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Goscinski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

PLPoland1 in 65K(measured from records)
NONorway1 in 547K
USUnited States1 in 1M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Poland (measured from records)
Record sources: 127 (measured from records)
: 1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

habitational name for someone from Goszczyn, Goszczyna, Goszczynno, or Goszczyno, all places named with a personal name, Goszcza, ultimately from gosc ‘guest’. IH311!SjS The surname Goscinski or Goszczriski, borne by a Polish noble family, can be traced back to the 14th century.

Cited for this meaning 1

Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Goscinski 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 Goscinski is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
PL Poland	589	1 in 65K	589	—	1
US United States	331	1 in 1M	336	Goscinski	127
GB United Kingdom	≈65 est.	≈1 in 1.1M	—	Goscinski	12
DE Germany	≈60 est.	≈1 in 1.4M	—	Goscinski	28
CA Canada	≈57 est.	≈1 in 727K	—	Goscinski	6
AT Austria	≈11 est.	≈1 in 823K	—	Goscinski	7
NO Norway	10	1 in 547K	10	Goscinski	1

589 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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

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

Polish surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Norway
Also written Gościński, Gościnski, Gosćinski, Gośćiński
Spanish surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Gościński
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Gościński
French surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States
Also written Gościński
a separate surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Norway
Also written Gościński
Arabic surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Gościński

15 further groups 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

Osvaldo Goscinskib. 1938USphysical chemist

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

FormalDear Goscinski,

InformalHello,

Evidence

14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Goscinski
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	336	#56,826
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	331	#60,790
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	311	#68,212
NO Norway	SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)	—	10	#55,248
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 4

Dictionary of American Family Names
Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Goscinski mean, and where does it come from?: habitational name for someone from Goszczyn, Goszczyna, Goszczynno, or Goszczyno, all places named with a personal name, Goszcza, ultimately from gosc ‘guest’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Goscinski?: In Polish /ɡɔst͡sins̪ci/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Goscinski have the most bearers?: In Poland, the national register counted about 589 people named Goscinski, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Goscinski most common?: Goscinski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 65 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Goscinski?: In Poland, the national register counted 589 people named Goscinski in 2026, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.

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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, “Goscinski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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