Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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