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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a stream where gold was found, from Middle High German golt ‘gold’ + wazzer ‘water’, or possibly an occupational nickname for a gold panner.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Gold ‘gold’ + Wasser ‘water’.

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