Gott Family History
Gott Name Meaning
German: from short form of the various Germanic compound
personal names with the first element god ‘good’ or
god, got ‘god’.South German and Swiss German: from
Middle High German got(t)e ‘godfather’.English (of Norman
origin): from a personal name having the same etymology as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gott
Name Distribution of Gott Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gott families
 42 - 81  15 - 41 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gott families
|
411 - 819 138 - 410 |
1 - 137 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gott families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gott census records
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Gott Family Origin
Gott Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Gott
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Gott Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Gott census records
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