Goshen
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelling of the North German family name Goschen, a patronymic from a short form of the personal name Gottschalk (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Goshen is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Goshen is also written גושן in Hebrew.
- USUnited States1 in 680K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 760Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 910Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Goshen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 680K (inferred from the name graph)
724 named גושן, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Goshen in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled גושן in IL Israel.
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)Americanized spelling of the North German family name Goschen, a patronymic from a short form of the personal name Gottschalk.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Goshen is found
(measured from records)Goshen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 724as גושן | 1 in 12K | 724 | גושן | 44 |
| US United States | 489 | 1 in 680K | 515 | Goshen | 185 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 912K | — | Goshen | 15 |
| CA Canada | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 758K | — | Goshen | 10 |
| AU Australia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Goshen | 9 |
724 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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)Goshen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The Land of Goshen.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, biblical land, ancient Egypt; US pi.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Inbal Goshenb. 1975ILresearcher
- Nathan Goshenb. 1986ILIsraeli singer-songwriter
- Maya Goshenb. 2000ILIsraeli judoka
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Goshen mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of the North German family name Goschen, a patronymic from a short form of the personal name Gottschalk. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Goshen?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 724 people named גושן, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Goshen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Goshen is densest in the United States — about 1 in 680 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Goshen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 489 people named Goshen in 2010, about 1 in 680 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goshenThe 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, “Goshen” — ranked 1892nd in Israel (CBS Israel, 2017). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.