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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : descriptive nickname for someone with a prominent bump or wart, Polish gula.
  • Polish : nickname for a reveler, from a derivative of the dialect verb gulać ‘to make merry’.
  • Polish : variant of Gulya, metonymic occupational name for a herdsman, from gulya ‘cattle’.

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