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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle Low German gōs, gūs ‘goose’ (or Bavarian and Alemannic gaus), a nickname for a foolish person or metonymic occupational name for a breeder of geese.
  • German : from a short form of an old personal name formed with Old High German gawi ‘fertile region’, ‘district’.

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