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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : habitational name from any of the various minor places which get their names from an ancient Germanic element goch, gog ‘marsh’, ‘bog’, ‘fen’.
  • Polish : from a pet form of various personal names, such as Goczałek, Gościsław, or Gotart.

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