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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of Dutch Bloetgoet, unexplained.
  • Franz or François Bloetgoet, alias Francis Bloodgood (1635–76) came in 1658 from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Flushing, Long Island, NY.

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