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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an Americanized form of German Göttgen, a Rhenish surname from a pet form of the personal name Gottfried, or of North German Gätjen, from the medieval personal name Gado, cognate with Middle High German gate ‘companion’ (see Gade).

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