Nick 'the good,' corresponding to French le bon.

Richard le Gode, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.

(a) Bapt. 'the son of Gode.' This is the source of most of our Goods; compare Goodwin and Godwin as compounds.

Goda Herrt, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

William fil. Gode, ibid.

Goda Poggel, ibid.

Norman fil. Gode, ibid.

Goda de Castre, ibid.

Gode de Scorham, temp. 1300: Cartularium Abbatiale de Whiteby, Ordinis S. Benedicti.

Hawen Cropure et Gude uxor ejus, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Goda de Berewyk, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill sive Liber feodorum in Curia Scaccarii. Temp. Henry III & Edward I.

Hugo Gud, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Cecilia Gud, 1379: ibid.

Robertus Godde and Elena uxor ejus: ibid.

Willelmus Gude: ibid.

1402. Goda Pope: Cal. of Wills in Court of Husting (2).

1770. Married — Bartholomew Goode and Mary Caporn: St. George, Hanover Square.

1805. — Abraham Good and Elizabeth Turner: ibid.

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. A Cornish surname. Both forms are found in records of the same family.

1658. Baptised — Richard, son of Robert Code: Reg. St. Columb Major (Cornwall).

1660. — Mary, d. of Robert Coode: ibid.

1662. — William, son of Robert Coade: ibid.

1672-3. Thomas Coode and Elizabeth Wicks: Marriage Alleg. (Canterbury).

This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Coustance,' usually Custance (which see), from nick. Cust or Cuss; 'Cuskin, a drinking-cup, a cup, a cuskin': Nomenclator, (Halliwell). Cup-names were commonly taken from the girls who handed them; v. Jug in Skeat's Etymological Dictionary.

Cust de Clementhorp, 10 Edward III: Freemen of York.

Custe Newman, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Robert fil. Cust, ibid.

Custe Alver, ibid.

Cus nepta Johannis Frost, Cambridgeshire, ibid.

Cuss Balla, Huntingdonshire, ibid.

Matilda Custe, doghter, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

1701. Baptised — John, s. Thomas Cust, cutler: St. Dionis Backchurch.

(1) probably from the Old English personal name Goda or Gode. (2) shortened from a personal name, as Goodman, Goodrich, Goodwin. (3) less probably, I think, from the adjective 'good'. George Gude and Mariota Hommyll, his spouse, are mentioned in 1517 (RSS., I, 2946; for many additional references to him see Inchcolm, p. 135). Thomas Gude, bailie of Lowdoun, Ayr, 1533 (Laing, 390). John Gwid, mason, was builder of the tower of Pollok, 1536 (Pollok, I, p. 271), and John Gud held a tenement in Glasgow, 1555 (Protocols, l). Herbert Guld was infeft in lands of Auchencairn, 1561 (Nisbet, I, p. 219). Magnus Guld, retoured heir of James Guld in Kirkwall, 1636, may be the Magnus Good, merchant and burgess of the same town, 1648 (Retours, Orkney, 23, 55). George Good was author of Liberton in ancient and modern times, Edinburgh, 1893. Godde 1564, Gud 1554.

A form of Coad(e, q.v.

A wood or forest. A Breton name, from the Celtic coit, sylva, nemus.

Code was a tenant before the compilation of Domesd. An ancient family long settled at Morval, co. Cornwall, have at various periods written themselves Code, Coad, and Coode. C. S. Gilbert's Cornw. ii. 72.

Probably Good. Anglo-Saxon god.

From excellence of character, like the French Le Bon.

See Coode. (There is Coad's Green in North Hill. )

From coid, var. coit, cos, coys, cuit, cus (pl. cosaws, cosawes), god, goda, goed, goose, gosse, gus, guz,govyth, gyth, wyth, quit, quite, a wood. Hence the surnames Cause, Causse, Caws, Cawse, Coad, Coat, Coath, Code, Cood, Coot, Coote, Cowd, Coose, Cooze (Cossa?), Cuss, Goad, Goate, Good, Goose, Goosey, Gooze, Goozee, Goss, Gosse.

For Wood.

Coad is another old Cornish name. The Codes of Morval in the 16th century belonged to an ancient family (P.). In 1588, John Coade, a gentleman of Cornwall, contributed £25 to the Spanish Armada Fund (Sp.).