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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : metonymic occupational name for a breeder or keeper of geese, from Middle Low German gōs ‘goose’.
  • South German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on Gote ‘Goth’ or got ‘god’.

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