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The gowdy Surname

gowdy Name Meaning and History

  1. Northern Irish: variant of Goldie.
  2. Possibly an Americanized spelling of Gaude, an eastern German name under Slavic influence, or of German Gaudig, a nickname for a waster, from Middle High German giudec ‘wasteful’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gowdy Families in the US in 1920
Number of gowdy families
 23-43
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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