Family name origins & meanings
- English (mainly Lancashire) : topographic name from Old English gors(t) ‘gorse’, or a habitational name from some minor place named with this word.
- Slovenian (Gorše) : shortened form of the personal name Gregor, Latin Gregorius.
- Slovenian (Gorše) : topographic name from a derivative of gora ‘mountain’, ‘hill planted with vines’, ‘wood in a hill country’ (see Gornik).