Family name origins & meanings

• French : nickname for a greedy or voracious man, from Old French goulet ‘gullet’, a diminutive of goule ‘throat’ (Latin gula). It may also be in part a topographic name for someone who lived by a narrow pass or defile.
• A family of this name, from Chartres, was in Quebec city in 1646 and in Château Richer in later years.