Gooding in my family tree
English: 1. nickname from Middle English gode good (Old English gōd). 2. from a medieval given name, a survival of the Old English personal name Gōda, which was in part a byname and in part a short form of various compound names with the first element gōd.
Variants: Goode, Goude, Gude, Gudd. (Of 1 only): Legood (with fused Anglo-Norman French definite article, as often found in medieval records).
Cognates (of 1): German: Gut, Guth, Guthe. Low German: Gode, Gude. Dutch, Flemish: Goed, De Goede. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Guter, Gutter; Giter, Gitter (Southern Ashkenazic). See also Goodman.
Patronymics (from 2): English: Gooding, Goodinge, Goodings.
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