# Goss (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/goss/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 26,179 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,349 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 11,794 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.8% (25,464 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, spelling variant of Gosse. * As a German surname, from a personal name related to the adjective gut (“good”) or Gott (“god”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Goss in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 80% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 14% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Goss in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Austria.

## People named Goss

- Porter Goss, American politician and first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Kimberly Goss, American heavy metal singer
- Tim Goss, British automotive engineer
- Chris Goss, American record producer and musician (born 1958)
- Eleanor Goss, American tennis player (1895–1982)
- Belinda Goss, Australian racing cyclist
- Sean Goss, association football player
- Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Austrian anti-war activist and Christian theologian

## Similar surnames

Gass, Guss, Gose, Gosa, Goes, Gosch, Gosha, Gage, Gooch, Gough, Guess, Giese.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.