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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Götzmann) : variant of Götz (see Goetz).
  • South German (Götzmann) : from late Middle High German gotesman ‘man of God’, hence a nickname for a particularly pious person, or perhaps for someone who worked in a church.

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