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

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

Goshen is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 680K(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael1 in 12Kas גושן
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Goshen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,700 named גושן, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
185 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 680K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GoshenLatin(measured from records)
גושןHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled גושן in IL Israel, ET Ethiopia, RO Romania and 1 more.

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.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(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.

Where Goshen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia≈3,700 est.≈1 in 29K—גושן3
IL Israel724as גושן1 in 12K724גושן44
US United States4891 in 680K515Goshen185
RO Romania≈180 est.≈1 in 121K—גושן3
GB United Kingdom≈65 est.≈1 in 1M—Goshen15
LB Lebanon≈23 est.≈1 in 238K—גושן1

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Goshen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Gosen, โกเสน, โกเชน

33 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)

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)

1940196019802000Liora Goshen, b. 1947Inbal Goshen, b. 1975Nathan Goshen, b. 1986Maya Goshen, b. 2000

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 11 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Goshen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020515#44,823
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010489#44,034
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000481#42,437
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

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.
In which country does Goshen have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named גושן in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
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 Ethiopia 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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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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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