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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Koder or Goder, from a short form of any of the old personal names formed with Old High German got ‘god’, e.g. Gottfried or Gothard.
  • Americanized spelling of South German Goder, a topographic for someone living by a narrow pass or ravine, from Middle High German goder ‘throat’, ‘gullet’.
  • Americanized spelling of Slovenian Koder.

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