The Goossens surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 556 people carried this name — #37,640 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 476,200 people counted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 14,427 people named Goossens live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 420 people named Goossens.
89 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 33 départements, most often Nord.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
57 people named Goossens live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Goossens in American newspapers,
1889–1956.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,421 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Goossens,
with a public archive behind them.
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Johannes Franciscus Goossens 1801–1877 · politician -
Pierre-Lambert Goossens 1827–1906 · Catholic priest -
Willem Goossens 1869–1933 · priest -
Thomas Goossens 1882–1970 · Latin Catholic priest -
Eugene Aynsley Goossens 1893–1962 · composer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 175 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Goossens.
- Goni 269 · U.S. census
- Gonthier 356 · U.S. census
- Gonzales 193,934 · U.S. census
- Gonzalez 597,718 · U.S. census
- Gonzalo 536 · U.S. census
- Gonzalves 190 · U.S. census
- Gora 904 · U.S. census
- Goral 897 · U.S. census
- Goram 116 · U.S. census
- Gorczyca 755 · U.S. census
- Gord 332 · U.S. census
- Gorde 123 · U.S. census
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