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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish : variant of Goldie.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of Gaude, an eastern German name under Slavic influence, or of German Gaudig, a nickname for a waster, from Middle High German giudec ‘wasteful’.

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