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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (common in the Czech Republic) : from the medieval personal name Helgoth, Helgath, Germanic Hildegaud, composed of hild ‘strife’ + got, of uncertain meaning (perhaps from the same word as Goth).

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