Gohl Family History
- Gohl Name Meaning
- Eastern German (of Slavic origin): nickname from goly ‘bald’, ‘naked’, or topographic name from gola ‘bare heathland’, ‘place without trees’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word. Swiss German: probably a nickname for a loud person, from Middle High German goln ‘to howl’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 68,396 Historical Documents with Gohl on Ancestry
- 49,309 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,440 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,981 Military Records
- 1,298 Immigration Records
- 11,368 Member Trees
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Number of Gohl families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gohl census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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