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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : perhaps a variant of Godu, from a derivative of Old French gode in the sense ‘debauched’.
  • A family Godu, also called Sancoucy, from Poitiers, was in Varennes, Quebec, by 1698.

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