English (Yorkshire): possibly a habitational name from
Goosnargh in Lancashire, so named from the Old Irish personal name
Gussan + Old Norse erg ‘hill pasture’.
Probably an Americanized form of German Gossner or
Gössner, variants of Gassner.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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