Gosman

surname · Latin script

Meaning: nickname from Yiddish goz ‘hare’ -iman ‘man’

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

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

Gosman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 696K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 116K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 145K

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.

United States (measured from records)

478 people, 2010

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

nickname from Yiddish goz ‘hare’ -iman ‘man’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gosman 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 Gosman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4781 in 696K478Gosman178
NL Netherlands1491 in 116K149Gosman15
BR Brazil1371 in 1.5M137—1
CA Canada≈120 est.≈1 in 307K—Gosman32
GB United Kingdom≈120 est.≈1 in 568K—Gosman61
JM Jamaica≈19 est.≈1 in 145K—Gosman1
EE Estonia≈7 est.≈1 in 175Klisted—9

478 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Gosman is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Goşman

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ğosman

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United Kingdom

    Also written Goșman

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Госман

29 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)

Gosman 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.

  • Variant spelling of German Gossmann (see Gossman).

    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)

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 Gosman,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Gosman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010478#44,872
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020474#48,145
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000464#43,798
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007149#13,646
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—137#49,761
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • 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)

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 Gosman mean, and where does it come from?
nickname from Yiddish goz ‘hare’ -iman ‘man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gosman?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑsmən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gosman have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 478 people named Gosman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gosman.
Where is Gosman most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gosman is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 116 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gosman?
In the United States, the national register counted 478 people named Gosman in 2010, about 1 in 696 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, “Gosman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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