Family name origins & meanings
- English : from the Middle English personal name Algod, Alegod, Halgod, of Scandinavian origin. Compare Old Danish Algot, from an unattested Alf-gautr ‘elf Goth’ or A{dh}al-gautr ‘noble Goth’.
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