Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly East Anglia and East Midlands) : nickname for a dutiful son, from Middle English gode ‘good’ + sone ‘son’.
  • English : from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Gōdsunu, composed of the elements gōd ‘good’ + sunu ‘son’.
  • Possibly an Americanized form of German Gutersohn, a nickname or pet name meaning ‘good son’ for one of out of many sons.

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