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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a pet form of Gobert.
  • Guyanese and Trinidadian name found among people of Indian origin : from the Hindu personal name Govind, from Sanskrit govinda ‘lord of herdsmen’, an epithet of the god Krishna.
  • A family called Gobin from Tours was in Quebec city by 1681.

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