Gosness Surname
Approximately 3 people bear this surname
Gosness Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Gosness Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gosness Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gosness is carried by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gosness? popularity and diffusion
It is the 10,311,814th most frequently held last name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 2,147,483,647 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Gosness live; 100 percent live in North America and 100 percent live in Anglo-North America.
This last name is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 3 people, or 1 in 120,819,644. In The United States Gosness is mostly found in: South Carolina, where 67 percent are found and North Carolina, where 33 percent are found.
Gosness Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Gosness has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Gosness surname grew 150 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gosness
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