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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname, literally meaning ‘good bargain’, but perhaps an altered form of the North German family name Godekopp, a nickname meaning ‘good head’, Low German kopp ‘head’ having been confused with Dutch koop ‘buy’, ‘bargain’.

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