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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a personal name, a short form of the various Germanic compound names with the first element gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’.
  • French : from a diminutive of Old French gode, in various dialects a term for a simpleton. This name is found chiefly in LA.

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