Gogol Family History
Gogol Name Meaning
Polish (rarely Gogoł) Ukrainian and Jewish (from Ukraine): from Polish gogoł Ukrainian gogol ‘wild duck mallard’ a nickname denoting a wildfowler or acquired on account of some other association with the bird. The Jewish name may be artificial. Slovak (also Gogoľ): nickname from dialect gogoľ ‘goiter struma’. Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from Gogole a village in northeastern Poland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022