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goethe Name Meaning and History

German (also Göthe): from a short form of the personal name Godo, formed with the Germanic element god, got ‘god’, or from Middle High German göte ‘godfather’.

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Distribution of goethe Families in the US in 1920
Number of goethe families
 10-18
 4-9
 1-3
 0
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