Goß Surname

449,465th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 757 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Goß Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Goß Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany7551:106,63013,171
Austria21:4,257,71899,224

The alternate forms: Go (337,643) & (2) are calculated separately.

Goß Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Goß Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Goß occurs most in Germany. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Go or . For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Goß? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 449,465th most common last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 9,626,877 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Goß reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 100 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The last name Goß is most frequently held in Germany, where it is borne by 755 people, or 1 in 106,630. In Germany Goß is mostly concentrated in: Bavaria, where 62 percent reside, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 11 percent reside and Hesse, where 7 percent reside. Barring Germany it exists in one country. It is also found in Austria, where 0 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Go93337,643/
Gooß86248/
Goße8678/
Goiß861/
802/
Ngo671,485,291/
Gou67560,541/
Goh67135,156/
God6762,363/
Gop6755,997/
Goo6715,332/
Goi6711,438/
Goy6710,657/
Goa677,604/
Gos675,038/
Gho674,419/
Got673,995/
Goj672,003/
Gaß671,080/
Hoß671,013/
Goz67978/
Goï67210/
Cgo6772/
Ggo6760/
Goš6752/
Hgo6752/
Kgo6746/
Goş6737/
Gox6734/
Goţ6732/
Goś6722/
Goç677/
Oße677/
Goî673/
Qgo673/
Goć672/
Ñgo671/
Gãß671/

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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
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  • 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 Goß
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