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    The surname Gosha

    A surname, carried by 1,019 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G200

    Gosha: #24,531 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Gosha #24,531, 1,019 people Gosha: #24,531 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Gosha #24,531, 1,019 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gosha is more common than 84.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,019 people named Gosha in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 302,989 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,008.

    #24,531
    rank among US surnames
    1,019
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #23,501)

    Who is named Gosha

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    69% of people named Gosha identified as Black (not Hispanic), 27% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 69%
    • White (not Hispanic) 27%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gosha

    Gosha has the Soundex code G200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Gosha?
    1,019 people in the United States had the surname Gosha in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,989 Americans. It ranked 24,531st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gosha?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Gosha identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 27% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Gosha getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,008 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,019 in 2010, up 1.1%.