Gosnell

At the 2020 census, 6,411 Americans bore the surname Gosnell — 5,252nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 46,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,411
Rank: 5,252nd
How common: 1 in 46,600
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

From earlier Gosnold, possibly from a former place called Gosenwold, a compound of Old English gōs (“goose”) + Middle English wold (“plain”), from Old English weald, ang-ang wald.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gosnell described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gosnell

Raja Gosnell (born 1958)American film editor and director
Kermit Gosnell (1941–2026)American serial killer

People named Gosnell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gosnell

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.