Gossard
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Either 'goose-keeper' or an insulting French variant of Gosse
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəˈsɑɹd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gossard is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- CACanada
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Either 'goose-keeper' or an insulting French variant of Gosse.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Gossard is read(measured from records)
Gossard is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English75%
Either 'goose-keeper' or an insulting French variant of Gosse.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from OE gōs and hierde ‘goose-herd’; first attested Walter Goseherd 1236 Ass (Ha)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- French15%
occupational name for a keeper of geese. Middle English goseherde, from Old English gos ‘goose’ + hierde ‘herdsman’, ‘keeper’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the Germanic personal name Gozhard, composed of an unexplained firt element goz- + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arthur Gossardb. 1935USAmerican scientist
- Charles Gossardb. 1963FRFrench politician
- Stone Gossardb. 1966USAmerican guitarist (born 1966)
- Cyril Gossardb. 1982FRFrench rugby league footballer
- Julia M Gossardhistorian
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,178 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,658 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,227 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 132 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 124 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 118 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 115 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 97 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 62 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Gossard mean, and where does it come from?
- Either 'goose-keeper' or an insulting French variant of Gosse. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Gossard?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəˈsɑɹd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gossard have the most bearers?
- Gossard is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gossardThe 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, “Gossard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.