Given name & surname · also Middle English
Gosling
“young goose”
Gosling is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an English surname, Gosling goes back to Middle English gosling, meaning “young goose.”
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Where it comes from
Gosling has more than one origin: as an English surname, it comes from Middle English gosling; as a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “good”.
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How it developed
From Middle English gosling (“young goose”), from Old Norse gæslingr, built from English goose + ling.
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Gosling’s family of names
In English usage, Gosling as a surname has a related form in Joslin. In English usage, Gosling as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Гослинг.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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