Goswami
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu (Brahman) name, from Sanskrit gosvdmi ‘lord’, ‘religious mendicant’, from Sanskrit go, a word with many meanings, including ‘earth’ and ‘cow’, -i- svaml ‘lord’ (see Swamy)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɑswɑmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goswami is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 263K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 12K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
142,941 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
- Sanskritgosvdmi(measured from records)
- Sanskritgo(measured from records)
Hindu (Brahman) name, from Sanskrit gosvdmi ‘lord’, ‘religious mendicant’, from Sanskrit go, a word with many meanings, including ‘earth’ and ‘cow’, -i- svaml ‘lord’ (see Swamy).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goswami 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #229 | 142,941 | 1 in 9.3K | 143K | Goswami | 266 |
| BD Bangladesh | #407 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Goswami | 48 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Goswami | 6 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Goswami | 13 |
| US United States | — | 1,267 | 1 in 263K | 2.1K | Goswami | 269 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Goswami | 38 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Goswami | 8 |
142,941 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Goswami 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.
In English, A surname from Sanskrit.
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)
- Amit Goswamib. 1936USIndian-American physicist and writer (born 1936)
- Joy Goswamib. 1954INBengali writer
- Arnab Ranjan Goswamib. 1973INIndian news anchor
- KK Goswamib. 1973INIndian television actor
- Abir Goswamib. 1976INIndian actor
- Lajja Goswamib. 1988INIndian woman shooter
- Priyanka Goswamib. 1996INIndian athlete
- Gracy Goswamib. 2003INIndian actress
- Anjali GoswamiUSChief Scientific Adviser and Director General Science, Data and Analysis at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, paleo-biologist and academic
- Moloya GoswamiINIndian actress
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 23 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Goswami mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu (Brahman) name, from Sanskrit gosvdmi ‘lord’, ‘religious mendicant’, from Sanskrit go, a word with many meanings, including ‘earth’ and ‘cow’, -i- svaml ‘lord’ (see Swamy). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goswami?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɑswɑmi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Goswami have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 143 thousand people named Goswami, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goswami.
- Where is Goswami most common?
- Goswami is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Goswami?
- In India, the national register counted 142,941 people named Goswami, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Goswami compared with other names?
- In India, Goswami is the 229th most common surname of 1,492,515 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, “Goswami” — the 229th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.