Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name or occupational name for a woodcutter or someone who sold wood, from German Holz ‘wood’, altered under Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g.
- Eastern German (under Slavic influence) : habitational name for someone from Golz or Golssen in eastern Germany, place names that may derive from Slavic gola ‘heath’.