Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized spelling of German Koder or Goder, from a short form of any of the old personal names formed with Old High German got ‘god’, e.g. Gottfried or Gothard.
- Americanized spelling of South German Goder, a topographic for someone living by a narrow pass or ravine, from Middle High German goder ‘throat’, ‘gullet’.
- Americanized spelling of Slovenian Koder.