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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish female personal name Golde meaning ‘gold’.
  • German : from a short form of any of several Germanic personal names composed with gold, guld ‘gold’, ‘bright’.

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