Goslar
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from the place name Goslar in the Harz; bearer variant Goßlar 15
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Goslar is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland.
- PLPoland
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from the place name Goslar in the Harz; bearer variant Goßlar 15.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goslar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the dfa-band-4 register. 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)
Goslar 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 German, Toponymic surname from the place name Goslar; bearer count 209.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- Julian Goslarb. 1820UAAustrian revolutionary
- Emma Goslarb. 1848DEGerman writer (1848-1923)
- Betty Engelb. 1873DEnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1873-11-08
- Julio Goslarb. 1883DEGerman church musician (1883–1976)
- Hans Goslarb. 1889DEGerman journalist and economist (1889-1945)
- Lotte Goslarb. 1907DEGerman-American dancer and mime (1907-1997)
- Jürgen Goslarb. 1927DEGerman actor and director (1927–2021)
- Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Goslarb. 1928DEfue la mejor amiga de Anelis Marie Frank mas conocida como Ana frank (1928–2022)
- Tomasz Goslarb. 1958PLPolish physicist
- Tomaž Goslarb. 1979SIresearcher
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 241 | #31,562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 173 | #108,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 168 | #106,096 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 161 | #103,193 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,089 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #78,136 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #32,843 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 7 | #23,330 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Goslar mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from the place name Goslar in the Harz; bearer variant Goßlar 15. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Goslar have the most bearers?
- Goslar is most frequently recorded in Poland, where it is most often spelled goslar.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goslarThe 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, “Goslar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.