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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish (from Ukraine) : from Ukrainian gogol ‘wild duck’, ‘mallard’, a nickname denoting a wildfowler or acquired on account of some other association with the bird. The Jewish name may be ornamental.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name from Gogole, a village in northeastern Poland.

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