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goes Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch and North German: from Middle Dutch goes ‘goose’, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept geese, or a nickname for a silly person.
  2. Portuguese: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of goes Families in the US in 1920
Number of goes families
 12-21
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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