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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a reliable friend or neighbor, from Middle English gode ‘good’ + frend ‘friend’.
  • English translation of German Gutfreund cognate of 1, from Middle High German guot ‘good’ + vriunt ‘friend’.

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