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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Joslin.
  • English : nickname from Middle English gosling ‘young goose’ (from Old English gōs + the Germanic suffix -ling, partly in imitation of Old Norse gæslingr from gás).
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with god, got ‘god’ or gōd ‘good’.

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