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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the Biblical personal name Golia ‘Goliath’, a nickname for a very large man.
  • Altered spelling of Slovenian Golja, topographic name derived from gol ‘treeless’ or goljava ‘barren land’.

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