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	0
Berkshire	0
Cambridgeshire	0
Channel Islands	0
Cheshire	0
Cornwall	0
Cumberland	0
Derbyshire	1
Devon	0
Dorset	1

Durham	0
Essex	0
Gloucestershire	0
Hampshire	0
Herefordshire	0
Hertfordshire	0
Huntingdonshire	0
Isle of Man	0
Kent	1
Lancashire	0
Leicestershire	0

Lincolnshire	1
London	0
Middlesex	0
Northumberland	0
Norfolk	0
Northamptonshire	0
Nottinghamshire	0
Oxfordshire	0
Rutland	0
Shropshire	0
Suffolk	0

Somerset	1
Surrey	0
Sussex	0
Staffordshire	0
Warwickshire	0
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

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Gosse Surname Statistics

Top Professions for the Gosse family

Profession	Census Frequency
Scholar	2
Cabinet Maker	1
Servant	1
Silk Woollen Dyer & Cleaner	1
House Servant	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

Did you know?

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