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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of German Gö(h)mann, a nickname for a farmer or country dweller, from Middle High German göu, geu ‘region’, ‘country’ + man ‘man’ (see Gau 1), or, in the north, possibly a topographic name from the field name An der Gö ‘at the water meadow’.

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