Gosse

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: child, kid

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

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

Gosse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 7.8K
  • CACanada≈1 in 36K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,800 people, est.

Sources
235 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Côte d’Ivoire, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Gossé in NO Norway.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From the Old French personal name Gosse, from Germanic Gozzo.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gosse is read(measured from records)

Gosse 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.

  • French54%

    child, kid

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English37%

    From the Old French personal name Gosse, from Germanic Gozzo.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

    Sir Edmund William, English poet

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    and man of letters

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Gosse 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 Gosse is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈3,800 est.≈1 in 18K558Gosse235
CI Côte d’Ivoire≈3,500 est.≈1 in 7.8K1.5KGosse4
CA Canada≈1,000 est.≈1 in 36K—Gosse47
US United States7861 in 423K894Gosse92
BE Belgium2361 in 50K236Gosse30
NO Norway661 in 83K66Gossé5

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Gosse is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Goße, Gossé, Gossè, Gössê

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gossé

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Gossé

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gösse, Gossé

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Gossé

  • Arabic surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria

    Also written Ğōŝŝe, Gósse, Gőśśě, Gõsse, Gossé

41 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)

Gosse is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from the Old French personal name Gosse, representing the Germanic personal name Gozzo, a short form of the various compound names beginning god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In German, gutter (most often as a symbol for alcoholism, homelessness, and/or other social hardships)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

17501800185019001950Nicolas Gosse, b. 1787Emily Bowes, b. 1806Philip Henry Gosse, b. 1810William Gosse, b. 1813William Gosse, b. 1842Edmund Gosse, b. 1849James Hay Gosse, b. 1876George Gosse, b. 1912Mary Downer, b. 1924Peter Gosse, b. 1938

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Gosse, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Gosse
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—1.5K#363
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020894#28,394
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000867#26,469
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010786#29,878
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961722—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951642—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941616—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971588—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991558—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981515—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921481—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931462—

Reference works 7

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

Where does the name Gosse come from?
From the Old French personal name Gosse, from Germanic Gozzo. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Gosse?
A machine transcription gives /ɡɔs/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Gosse mean?
In French, child, kid
What are other forms of the name Gosse?
In the etymology graph, Gaubert, Gaute and Goot are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Gosse have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Gosse in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gosse.
How common is the name Gosse?
In the United States, the national register counted 786 people named Gosse in 2010, about 1 in 423 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, “Gosse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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