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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Głód) : from głód ‘hunger’, possibly applied as a nickname for someone who was very thin or, ironically, for someone who was excessively fat.
  • German : probably from a Germanic personal name composed with Old High German (h)lūt ‘clear’, ‘famous’.

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