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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : variant of Godin.
  • Breton : nickname for a person with fair hair or a light complexion, from gwen ‘light’, ‘white’, ‘fair’. See also Gwynn.
  • A bearer of the name Gouin, from Poitou, was in Trois Rivières, Quebec, by 1663.

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