Gosse Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 3
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 2
Devon 0
Dorset 7
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 4
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 3
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 2
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Gosse Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Gosse family

Profession Census Frequency
Farmer 2
Independent 2
Clerk 1
Merchant 1
Surgeon 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Gosse

Name Census Frequency
William Gosse 19
Mary Gosse 17
John Gosse 11
Elizabeth Gosse 9
Ellen Gosse 8
Gertrude Gosse 8
Henry Gosse 7
Sarah Gosse 7
Thomas Gosse 7
Eliza Gosse 6
Joseph Gosse 6
Catherine Gosse 5
Edmund Gosse 5
Emily Gosse 5
Robert Gosse 5
Ann Gosse 4
Clara Gosse 4
Edith Gosse 4
Emma Gosse 4
James Gosse 4
Martha Gosse 4
Alfred Gosse 3
Charles Gosse 3
Edward Gosse 3
Hannah Gosse 3

Gosse Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Goss 80% 18,195
2 Goose 80% 5,680
3 Gass 60% 2,777
4 Guess 40% 2,288
5 Agass 40% 680
6 Goozee 50% 424
7 Gess 60% 382
8 Gose 80% 273
9 Gosse 100% 262
10 Guss 60% 146

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The surname Gosse is the 9th most popular variant of Goss.

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