Göze: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Clerks wrote Götze in many ways, and Göze is one that stuck. In origin, the name means “From Götz, a pet form of Gottfried”. Records show Göze as one of the forms Götze took over time. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: Göz.

758 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Göze name at birth. There were 28 such births in the 1890s and 72 in the 1990s.

Arms linked to Götze and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Göze report, with a museum-style coat of arms.