Gosselin Family

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About the Gosselin surname

The surname Gosselin is associated with a patronymic formation. Gosselin derives from an old medieval personal name of Germanic origin. The name therefore belongs to a tradition in which an ancestor's given name gradually became a hereditary surname. Different families could independently adopt a surname formed from the same given name.

Pronunciation: Gos-lin/ɡɔslɛ̃/

Most frequent given names among the Gosselin family

Men

  1. 1Joseph13,566
  2. 2François9,230
  3. 3Pierre6,033
  4. 4Gabriel4,923
  5. 5Antoine4,709

Women

  1. 1Marie7,195
  2. 2Marguerite5,429
  3. 3Geneviève4,524
  4. 4Madeleine3,814
  5. 5Louise2,906
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The Gosselin name in our genealogy archives

347,075occurrences in our collections
10collections containing this name
2,265 3,0591881 → 1901people enumerated
1649First mention of the name
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