Gott Family History
Gott Name Meaning
German: from a short form of the various ancient Germanic compound personal names with the first element gōd ‘good’ or god got ‘god’. South German and Swiss German (also Gött): relationship name or nickname from Middle High German got(t)e ‘godfather’. Compare Goett . English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from the Middle English personal name Gotte. In some cases this was a pet form of Godfrey . It may also have been a pet form of other names beginning with God- such as Goddard and Godwin . Gotte was also a simplified pronunciation of the Anglo-Norman French personal name Goz Gots (ancient Germanic Gozzo) often used as a pet form of the Old French personal name Gocelin which was pronounced Gotselin; see Joslin . English: from the unrecorded Middle English personal name Gutte Gotte representing Old Norse Gutti a pet form of Guththormr (Guttormr) or perhaps of Old Swedish Gudhfast. English: nickname from Middle English gut(te) got(te) ‘gut intestine belly’ denoting a greedy or corpulent person. See Gut . Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 葛 see Ge
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022