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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from short form of the various Germanic compound personal names with the first element gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’.
  • South German and Swiss German : from Middle High German got(t)e ‘godfather’.
  • English (of Norman origin) : from a personal name having the same etymology as 1 above.

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