Gosia
A short form of Małgorzata, from the Greek for "pearl". As a name in its own right it's vanishingly rare: only about 40 women hold it on paper, and no girls were given it last year.
Gosia Pronunciation
Gosia is pronounced GO-shah (/ˈgɔɕa/).
What Gosia means
Where Gosia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gosia rarely appears on a birth certificate. The official name is Małgorzata, the version that goes on a school register or a form at the urząd. Gosia is what the same person answers to at home. Make her smaller and she becomes Małgosia, the diminutive that sits one step between the two.
Under all of them runs a Greek word, margarites, meaning pearl. In Polish, perła. The same root reached other languages and gave the German Margarete and the Latinate Margareta, so a Gosia in Kraków shares an origin with a Margaret in England and a marguerite in a French meadow.
The pearl meaning is the literal one, not a later gloss. Ancient writers already tied the name to the gem, and the sense held as it passed through saints and queens into Polish use.
So Gosia is the warm, everyday face of a very old name. The certificate says Małgorzata. The pearl stays underneath.
How many people are named Gosia
1 in 563596 women in Poland is named Gosia. 40 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6120 among female names.
Gosia as a middle name
Gosia is a first name for 40 women in Poland and a middle name for another 27, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1373rd, between Ewa Maria (27) and Krystina (27).
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#1371 Daphne27
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#1372 Ewa Maria27
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#1373 Gosia27
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#1374 Krystina27
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#1375 Latika27