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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : from the female personal name Godina, possibly of Germanic origin.
  • Catalan : variant of Codina, a topographic name from codina ‘stony field’.
  • Slovenian : nickname from the adjective goden ‘ripe’, ‘mature’, formed with the augmentative suffix -ina.

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