Gosha

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Gosche, Gosche, from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with god, got ‘god’ or god ‘good’

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡoʊʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 326K(measured from records)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 50K
  • GHGhana≈1 in 101K

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)

≈4,700 people, est.

Sources
158 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Gosche, Gosche, from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with god, got ‘god’ or god ‘good’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gosha 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 Gosha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈4,700 est.≈1 in 50K—Gosha3
US United States1,0191 in 326K1KGosha158
GH Ghana≈290 est.≈1 in 101K—Gosha1
GB United Kingdom≈200 est.≈1 in 335K—Gosha30
TZ Tanzania≈80 est.≈1 in 730K—Gosha5
JM Jamaica≈13 est.≈1 in 223K—Gosha1

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. 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(inferred from the name graph)

Gosha is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian

    Also written Гоша, Гося, Goša, Goscha

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Guatemala, Colombia, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Goshá

  • Amharic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, Israel

    Also written ጎሸ, Goshe, ጎሻ

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gosha 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, A corner-plot of land in India.

    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)

  • Hideo Goshab. 1929JPJapanese film director (1929–1992)

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)

FormalDear Mr Gosha,
InformalHi Gosha,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Gosha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,531
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,501
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020833#30,091
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Gosha mean, and where does it come from?
Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Gosche, Gosche, from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with god, got ‘god’ or god ‘good’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gosha?
A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊʃə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gosha have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Gosha in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gosha.
How common is the name Gosha?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,019 people named Gosha in 2010, about 1 in 326 thousand residents.

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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, “Gosha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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