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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : nickname from either gogołka ‘unripe fruit’ or gogol ‘wild duck’, ‘mallard’. See Gogol.
  • Greek (Gogolas) : unflattering nickname for a stupid person, from Albanian kungull ‘squash’, ‘pumpkin’.

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