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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Indian (Maharashtra); pronounced gokh-lay : Hindu (Brahman) name found among Konkanasth Brahmans, probably from Marathi gokhla ‘round window’, literally ‘cow eye’, from Sanskrit gavāḳsa (from go ‘cow’ + aḳsa ‘eye’), + the suffix -la.

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