Gossen

surname · Latin script

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

Gossen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: first/third-person plural preterite of gießen.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 432K
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 29K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,300 people, est.

Sources
205 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

first/third-person plural preterite of gießen

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gossen 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 Gossen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 61K—Gossen93
DZ Algeria—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 33K—Gossen1
US United States—7701 in 432K799Gossen205
PY Paraguay#854≈250 est.≈1 in 29K—Gossen15
EG Egypt—≈230 est.≈1 in 459K—Gossen3
CA Canada—≈220 est.≈1 in 172K—Gossen63
NL Netherlands—1821 in 95K182Gossen20

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Gossen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Госсен

31 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)

Gossen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Patronym zu Gößwein/Gottfried; 595 Belege. -ssen/-ßen-typische patronymische Bildung.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In se, first-person singular past indicative of gossat

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

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of gosse

    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)

1800185019001950Hermann Heinrich Gossen, b. 1810Paul Gossen, b. 1872Hans Gossen, b. 1884Carl Theodor Gossen, b. 1915Hendrika Gossen, b. 1917Gary H. Gossen, b. 1942

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 17 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Gossen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020799#31,118
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010770#30,367
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000628#34,150
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007182#11,393
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 Gossen mean, and where does it come from?
first/third-person plural preterite of gießen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Gossen have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Gossen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gossen.
How common is the name Gossen?
In the United States, the national register counted 770 people named Gossen in 2010, about 1 in 432 thousand residents.
How common is Gossen compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Gossen is the 854th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gossen” — the 854th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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