as a Last Name
- 524
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Gansen
Meaning & Origins
Dutch: from Middle Dutch gans; a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept or sold geese; alternatively, it may have been a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird, or, in some cases, a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by a sign depicting geese.
| 44,764th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 524
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Gansen per capita
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