Family name origins & meanings
- Indian (Maharashtra); pronounced as two syllables : Hindu (Brahman) name found among Konkanasth Brahmans, probably from Sanskrit gola ‘globe’.
- Slovenian : nickname or topographic name from the adjective gol ‘hairless’, ‘naked’, or ‘bare’, ‘treeless’. Compare Golia, Golec.
- Slovenian : derivative of the medieval male personal name Gal, Latin Gallus. Compare Gale 5.