Gosse
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: child, kid (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡɔs/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Gosse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 35Kfew records
- BEBelgium1 in 50K
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gossé in NO Norway.
How to pronounce Gosse
- French:/ɡɔs/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the Old French personal name Gosse, from Germanic Gozzo.
Cited for this meaning 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Gosse is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 1.5K | Gosse | 4 |
| FR France | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 558 | Gosse | 235 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Gosse | 47 |
| US United States | 786 | 1 in 423K | 894 | Gosse | 92 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 270K | listed | Gosse | 15 |
| BE Belgium | 236 | 1 in 50K | 236 | Gosse | 30 |
| NO Norway | 66 | 1 in 83K | 66 | Gossé | 5 |
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); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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)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)- Nicolas Gosseb. 1787FRFrench painter (1787-1878)
- Philip Henry Gosseb. 1810GBEnglish naturalist (1810-1888)
- Edmund Gosseb. 1849GBEnglish poet, author and critic (1849–1928)
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
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].
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Gosse?
- In French /ɡɔs/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Gosse mean?
- In French, child, kid
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gosse?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Gosse in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gosse. After it come France, Canada, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Gosse?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gosseThe 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, “Gosse” — ranked 363rd in Côte d’Ivoire (nomprenoms.ci). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.