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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a pet form of a Germanic compound personal name formed with god, got ‘god’ or gōd ‘good’ (see for example Goddard).
  • French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements god + wald ‘rule’, ‘power’.
  • French : from a diminutive of gode a French dialect term meaning ‘simple’, ‘silly’.

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