Gosnell

English

Etymology

From earlier Gosnold, possibly from a former place called Gosenwold, a compound of Old English gōs (“goose”) + Middle English wold (“plain”), from Old English weald, Anglian Old English wald.[1]

Proper noun

Gosnell

  1. A surname.
  2. A city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States, named after Lemael Gosnell.

References
  1. Mark Antony Lower (1860) “Gosnell”, in Patronymica Britannica. A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom., London: John Russell Smith, […]; Lewes: G. P. Bacon, page 134, column 2.
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