Family name origins & meanings
- French : metonymic occupational name for maker or pegs or stakes, from goujon ‘peg’, ‘stake’.
- French : nickname from the gudgeon, Old French gougon (Latin gobio, genitive gobionis). The fish is considered easy to catch, and so the nickname may have denoted a greedy or gullible person.
- French : A bearer of the name Gougeon, from Poitou, was in Quebec city by 1686.