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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of ten places named Goldbeck, from Middle Low German gold ‘gold’ + bek ‘stream’, ‘creek’. In some cases, the Jewish name may be ornamental.

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