Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire) : habitational name from Gowdall in East Yorkshire, named from Old English golde ‘marigold’ + Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.
  • English (chiefly Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire) : from Middle English gode ‘good’ + ale ‘ale’, ‘malt liquor’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a brewer or an innkeeper.

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