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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : dialect variant of Geltz.
  • German : habitational name from Göls in Holstein or from either of two places, Göl(t)zscha or Göltzschen, in Saxony.
  • German : nickname for a bald man from Slavic gol- ‘naked’, ‘bald’.

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