Family name origins & meanings
- English : from an Old German personal name, Godilo, Godila.
- German (Gödel) : from a pet form of a compound personal name beginning with the element gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’.
- Variant of Godl or Gödl, South German variants of Gote, from Middle High German got(t)e, gö(t)te ‘godfather’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Godl, a pet form of God, a variant of biblical Gad.