Last name origins & meanings:
- Danish and Norwegian: nickname for someone who was born on
Christmas Day or had some other connection with this time of year,
from Old Norse jól. This was originally the name of a pagan
midwinter festival, which was later appropriated by the Christian
Church for celebration of the birth of Christ.
- German: in North
Germany, an adoption of the Danish surname; elsewhere a nickname or
topographic name from a Slavic stem gol ‘naked’, ‘barren’.
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