Last name: GOSSELIN
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Last name frequency
GOSSELIN : This last name is indexed 563,323 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GOSSELIN : French: from the Old French personal name Goscelin Gosselin Joscelin from ancient Germanic Goz(e)lin a diminutive of a short form of compound names based on the element goz (from gaut an ethnic name meaning ‘Geat’ or ‘Goth’; see Goss). Compare Gorsline and Goslin.
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