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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from the Norman personal name Godebald, composed of the Germanic elements gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + bald, bold ‘bold’, ‘brave’.
  • There have been people called Godbout in Canada since 1662.

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