Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

English : nickname from Middle English gode ‘good’ (Old English gōd).
English : from a medieval personal name, a survival of the Old English personal name Gōda, which was in part a byname and in part a short form of various compound names with the first element gōd.
Americanized form of like-sounding names in other languages, for example German Gut or Guth.

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