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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Indian (northern states) : Hindu (Brahman) name, from Sanskrit gosvāmī ‘lord’, ‘religious mendicant’, from Sanskrit go, a word with many meanings, including ‘earth’ and ‘cow’, + svāmī ‘lord’ (see Swamy).

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