Family name origins & meanings
- Origin uncertain; perhaps a Dutch nickname for a jester, from Dutch de ‘the’ + a word cognate with Old French goliard ‘jester’, ‘buffoon’ (originally ‘glutton’), from Old French gole, Latin gula ‘gluttony’.
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